‘President Trump says no more, no mas. Ain’t happening on his watch’
By Joe Kovacs
PALM BEACH, Florida – As the Trump administration continues to defend tariffs on products from other countries, one of the president’s top advisers is sounding the alarm about a “far more important” economic threat to America.
The danger, according to Peter Navarro, the White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, is non-tariff cheating.
Navarro appeared on “Sunday Morning Futures” on the Fox News Channel, and told guest host Jackie DeAngelis: “The reality here is that institutionally, the international trade system is designed to cheat us.
“They have systematically higher tariffs on us, but more importantly, and far more importantly, it’s the non-tariff cheating.
“It’s the VAT taxes (value-added taxes), it’s the currency manipulation, the dumping, the export subsidies, the fake standards that keep our agricultural products out and keep our cars out of Japan. It’s all these things that foreign countries do that are designed explicitly to cheat us and are sanctioned by the World Trade Organization.
“So President Trump says no more, no mas. Ain’t happening on his watch. And that’s where we’re headed, we’re heading towards a strong America that makes things again.”