Donald Trump This does not fix it. The US President insists that His aggressive tariff policy This will accelerate the growth of your country and drag the local industry after several decades, in which, according to the rest of the country They “used” the United Statescausing a huge commercial deficit.
“In factWe tell the countries that we are going to give them a privilege to buy and work in our countryThe field and I think this is very good. In some cases, we will conclude direct agreements. We have already done several countries. This is a huge amount of money for this country, ”said the Republican leader in an interview with Fox News a few hours after the announcement of 30% of tariffs for all imported products from the European Union and Mexico.
Trump justifies that this commercial war is a legal answer, because, as he claims, Both the EU and its southern neighbors “used us for 30 or 40 years”The President says the field that European leaders are “annoying” for the inability to maintain current conditions in commercial relations with Washington.
In addition, Trump argued that this commercial policy corresponds to what was noted in his first period, although he argued that he had to be paralyzed to facilitate the consequences that the Covid-19 pandemic had both in the global economy and the American one.
Protects an increase in military expenses
On the same line the president He defended the agreement reached at the NATO summit make the rest of the Atlantic Alliance Spend 5% of your GDP defenseThe field is something, which, according to him, will allow a greater balance and force the United States to accept a much lower share of the organization’s investment.
“Now all countries pay much more, from 2% to 5%. Before they did not even pay 2 percentAnd now they pay 5 percent. This is more than one billion dollars a year (855 million euros). Now we have a great voice in NATO. Previously, we did not have a voice with Biden. I did not know where I was, ”concluded Donald Trump.