Trump’s Tariffs: 40 Years in the Making 🇺🇸💰

The fact is that you don't have free trade. You know, the one thing I'll say about Donald Trump is you may not agree with the tariffs, but he's been incredibly consistent. I stumbled into an interview he did with Larry King in 1987, and he walked through the entire trade imbalance 40 years ago. We don't have free trade right now because if you want to go to Japan or if you want to go to Saudi Arabia or various other countries, it's virtually impossible for an American to do business in those countries. The fact is that you don't have free trade.

事实上，你并没有享受到自由贸易。关于唐纳德·特朗普，有一点我不得不说，你可能不同意他的关税政策，但他在这一点上一直非常坚持。我偶然看到他在1987年接受Larry King采访时提到，40年前他就谈到了整个贸易不平衡的问题。现在我们没有真正的自由贸易，因为如果你想去日本、沙特阿拉伯或其他一些国家开展业务，对美国人来说几乎是不可能的。事实上，我们并没有实现自由贸易。

We think of a discrete trade, but you right now don't have free trade. Here's what tariffs do. Tariffs are a level setting mechanism that fixes a historical imbalance. What they want is to create the economic incentives to reassure as much industry as possible into the United States.

我们考虑的是一个独立的贸易，但目前你们没有自由贸易。关税的作用是调整历史的不平衡。它们想要做的是创造经济激励，尽可能多地把工业重新吸引回美国。