He just found out what reciprocal means.President Trump said Monday that he plans to end preferential trade treatment for India, which currently allows $5.6 billion worth of that country's exports to enter the U.S. duty-free.
"I am taking this step because, after intensive engagement between the United States and the government of India, I have determined that India has not assured the United States that it will provide equitable and reasonable access to the markets of India," Trump wrote in a letter to Congress, according to multiple media reports.
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The move comes after Trump, during a speech Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), criticized India for being "a very high-tariff nation."
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“When we send a motorcycle to India, it’s a hundred percent tariff. They charge 100 percent when India sends a motorcycle to us, we brilliantly charge them nothing," he said, according to HuffPost.
“So, I want a reciprocal tax or at least, I want to charge a tax. It’s called the mirror tax, but it’s reciprocal,” Trump added.
The Hill
Also, what the Huffington Post doesn't mention:
But that's not good enough for him. He has to lie anyway.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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