Senior White House adviser Peter Navarro issued a warning to the world:
If you want to come talk to us, it's not enough to just say you want to lower tariffs — the real issue is non-tariff deception. Stop manipulating your currency and stop dumping products into the U.S.
Europe, cut your 19% value-added tax to zero — stop creating false agricultural standards to block our pork, dairy products, and chicken from entering your markets.
Vietnam, stop dumping shrimp into our market and putting good people out of work along Louisiana's coast.
This is what people need to understand — non-tariff deception is the key issue.
Previously, Navarro clearly stated in response to Vietnam's request for zero tariffs that it was far from sufficient, emphasizing that the core problem lay in dumping and export subsidies and other forms of "non-tariff deception."
Even if we reduce tariffs to zero on both sides, our trade deficit with Vietnam will still reach about $120 billion... The problem lies in all their non-tariff deceptive practices.
Even if Vietnam kneels down, America will not be satisfied. Vietnam's actions can serve as a cautionary tale for many countries: kneeling is useless, only to suffer humiliation!
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