"This was the plan from the beginning".
Denk dat we een serieuze bullet gedodged hebben. Blijkbaar was negotiations niet het originele plan, anders was er wel iemand dienhet kan in het team.
En zelfs intern de realisatie dat de tarieven beetje naïef waren, no shit...
Politico artikel snippet.
A former senior Republican aide with ties to the administration said that, with the exception of U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who has not been a major influence in determining Trump’s strategy, “there’s no one within the administration who has the knowledge of and how to close trade agreements.”
There’s potential that the administration could convince other countries to reduce their tariff rates, but reducing non-tariff trade barriers is proving more complex, the former GOP aide continued.
“The current team — for right or wrong — came into this a little naive on the history of how to close trade agreements and they’re realizing that Japan is not going to allow U.S. rice to come in,” the person said. “It’s just not going to happen. And that’s true of a variety of other things.”