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Donald Trump defends tariffs against China and other countries, says trade measures 'working far better' than anticipated

Agence France-Presse • August 5, 2018, 08:58:12 IST
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Donald Trump on Saturday defended his controversial use of tariffs against China and other countries, saying the trade measures are “working far better than anyone ever anticipated.”

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Washington: US president Donald Trump on Saturday defended his controversial use of tariffs against China and other countries, saying the trade measures are “working far better than anyone ever anticipated.” “Tariffs have had a tremendous positive impact on our steel industry,” he said in one tweet. “Plants are opening all over the US, steelworkers are working again, and big dollars are flowing into our Treasury.”

....Tariffs have had a tremendous positive impact on our Steel Industry. Plants are opening all over the U.S., Steelworkers are working again, and big dollars are flowing into our Treasury. Other countries use Tariffs against, but when we use them, foolish people scream!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2018

“Tariffs will make our country much richer than it is today,” Trump said in another tweet. “Only fools would disagree.” He also said China was “for the first time doing poorly against us.”

....Tariffs will make our country much richer than it is today. Only fools would disagree. We are using them to negotiate fair trade deals and, if countries are still unwilling to negotiate, they will pay us vast sums of money in the form of Tariffs. We win either way......

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2018

His tweets came amid a new surge in trade tensions with China. Earlier this week, the US president told his top trade official to study whether to raise tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods from a planned 10 percent to 25 percent. Beijing then threatened to impose an additional $60 billion in tariffs on a variety of American goods – which White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow dismissed as “a weak response.” On Saturday China’s foreign minister Wang Yi called his country’s threat “fully justified and necessary.” Speaking on the sidelines of a security forum in Singapore, he hit back at Kudlow’s remarks: “As to whether China’s economy is doing well or not, I think it is all too clear to the whole international community,” Wang said, adding that China contributed a huge amount to global economic growth. The growing friction with China has raised concerns in both countries – and reportedly even within the Trump administration – about collateral damage. “We said before that this round of tariffs amounted to doubling down on the recklessness of imposing trade policy that will hurt US families and workers more than they will hurt China,” a major trade group, the National Retail Federation, said in a statement last week. While Trump has taken credit for new steel jobs created with the help of tariffs, retaliatory measures by Beijing and others have rattled US soybean farmers and the many companies reliant on increasingly expensive steel as a raw material.

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