Tariffs Necessary to Bring Down Trade Deficits, USTR Testifies - Alliance for American Manufacturing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The goal is to address the (trade deficit) and the offshoring that led to that and the non-reciprocal treatment that led to that.
52% : "We must move away from an economy based solely on the financial sector and government spending, and we must become an economy based on producing real goods and services.," said U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in his opening statement to the Senate Finance Committee, which held a hearing on President Trump's trade agenda -- and grilled him on the reciprocal tariffs enacted by the administration last week.
49% : "In other areas of federal policies we have clear metrics to measure success," Young said.
47% : "You're in the midst of trade negotiations with 90 different countries at the same time, by your own testimony, all of whom can make their own assessments about where the pressure points are on you and on us.

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