Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Soon we'll just be trading with ourselves

And hat have we got to trade?  Drugs and guns.  That'll be swell.
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.

[...]

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."

[...]

“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
He just found out what reciprocal means.

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.

No comments: