‘Non-tariff Cheating’: Donald Trump warns business partners with 8 points list in Easter post on Sunday
Easter on Sunday, US President Donald Trump issued a rigorous message to the international trade partners, which allegedly posted an eight-point list of “non-tariffs” practices, which he claimed that he could damage relations with the United States. Were listed strategy Manipulation in currencyTransaction to avoid government subsidy, forgery, and tariffs.
The post comes out shortly after Trump except China shortly after Trump announced a 90-day suspension of mutual tariffs for most American business colleagues. Speaking to reporters last Thursday at the Oval office, Trump said that discussion was going on with Beijing. “Yes, we are talking to China. I would say they have reached many times,” he said.
Trump’s ‘non-tariff cheat’ list:
- Manipulation in currency
- Watts that act as tariffs and
Export subsidy - Dumping below cost
- Export subsidy and other government subsidies
- Protective agricultural standard (eg, no genetically engineer in the European Union)
- Protective technical standard (Japan bowling)
- Forgery, theft, and IP theft (more than $ 1 trillion a year)
- Transcription to avoid tariffs
The 78 -year -old has long criticized what he describes as unbalanced trade policies. In Sunday’s post, he revived a controversial claim about Japan’s so-called “bowling ball test” in 2018, which was used to reject American-made vehicles.
“This is a bowling ball test. They take a bowling ball from 20 feet above in the air and leave it on the car’s hood,” Trump said. “If the hood dent, the car is not eligible. It is terrible.”
While the White House had earlier described the comment as a joke, Trump underlined its ongoing complaints to repeat it, which he sees as protectionist trade barriers against American goods.
