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White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said Monday that an offer by Vietnam to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not be enough for the administration to lift its new levies announced last week.

“Let’s take Vietnam. When they come to us and say ‘we’ll go to zero tariffs,’ that means nothing to us because it’s the nontariff cheating that matters,” Navarro said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Was it Peter Navarro or trade expert Ron Vara?

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

We shall forever call this maneuver of his the Retro Van Rape. Yeah, that has a nice ring to it.