Today is Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs. ‘
“April 2nd, 2025, will go down as one of the most important days in modern American history,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during Tuesday’s White House press briefing. “Our country has been one of the most open economies in the world, and we have the consumer base, hands down — the best consumer base. But too many foreign countries have their markets closed to our exports. This is fundamentally unfair.”
A study found that out of 132 of America’s foreign trading partners, two thirds of the 600,000 American exported products pay higher tariffs than the respective trading partner pays on exports to the U.S. (Source Rep. Jason Smith)
That is not fair trade.
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