Jameson Jarir, the candidate for President Donald Trump, told the American Trade Representative on Thursday that the comprehensive customs tariff needs more study to measure its impact on the high trade deficit of the United States, and the two countries note that they must reduce import barriers to maintain access to the American market.
Jarir told the US Senate confirmation that the Trump campaign to impose a global tariff at least 10 % will be examined under the opening day of the opening, which ordered a report by April 1.
He said that the study will also study the impact of the growing US merchandise trade deficit, which was recorded on Wednesday, at a value of $ 1.2 trillion per year 2024, with high imports.
Jarir told the Senate Finance Committee: “Part of the question is the volume of the trade deficit that we want, because the trade deficit represents, in a large part of it, the manufacture of jobs that (went) abroad.”
“The global tariff is something that must be studied and looked at to see if it could reflect the direction of this deficit and sober abroad,” said Jarir, a Washington’s trading lawyer who was the chief of staff at USTR Robert Lightizer. condition.
Like LightHizer, Greer wants to press for the smaller trade deficit and equal treatment of American commercial partners.
He said it was a “big problem”, that the trade deficit was growing with some countries, including Vietnam, which has high -tariff trade barriers.
The trade deficit of US commodities with Vietnam increased by 18 % last year to 123.5 billion dollars, according to the statistical office data, partly due to companies transferring production away from China to avoid the first Trump tariff.
If confirmed, Jarir said that he will in the “short demand” evaluate the unfair commercial practices of countries that maintain major commercial imbalances with the United States “and shows them that if they want to enjoy the continued arrival of the markets to the United States, we need to obtain the best treatment in the same way .
Canada, Mexico’s tariff about Fintanel
When asked about Trump’s preliminary threats against Canada and Mexico and its new duties by 10 % on Chinese imports, Jarir said that the goal of these measures is to reach agreements to reduce the flow of deadly fentanel to the United States, and illegal immigration. Trump sometimes said his goal is to reduce trade deficit and increase revenues.
Jarir said: “The president is talking about the president is about Fintanel.”
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“We don’t want one another fentanel death. A kilogram of fentanel can kill 50,000 people, through some accounts. We cannot get it, and we need to reach an agreement on that.”
Regarding the commercial relationship of the United States with China, he said it needs to become balanced, and that this will require more than the definitions of Chinese definitions, but also reduces the unbearable barriers.
Jarir said that, according to Trump’s commercial note, he will review the place where China did not comply with the “first stage” commercial deal with Beijing. The deal stopped a two -year trade war and included China’s obligations to enhance the purchases of American agricultural goods, energy, products and manufactured services.
Jarir said: “From there, she moves to the settlement of disputes and moved to enforcement,” Jarir said.
In addition to the 10 % definitions imposed this week, Trump pledged during his presidential campaign that he would impose 60 % duties on Chinese goods.
Jarir said that the USA and Cananga Convention on 2020 also need to be re -examined to ensure that China and other foreign countries are not riding in order to reach the United States to the United States. Re -negotiation by 2026.
Jarir added that he wanted to contract Mexico and Canada in the access to the UsMCA market, including dairy in Canada and the energy of Mexico.
Jarir also called for a more organic approach to digital trade to retreat from organizational efforts by South Korea and the European Union against American technology companies after the Biden administration dropped its long World Trade Organization’s demands to flow and ban the free borders on the borders from the requirements of data localization.
Jarir said: “We should not get to know our organization of the European Union, Brazil, or any other person, and they cannot distinguish against us and will not be tolerated with him,” Jarir said.
Several members of the Senate were asked about his plans to expand agricultural trade, which suffered during the previous commercial wars of Trump, Jarir said he wanted to expand foreign markets for American “competitive” farmers.
“This means that we need to go and reach the market where things have been closed,” said, citing India and Turkey as markets that need to be opened for the entire American agricultural goods.
In his opening comments, Jarir said he would press for an American pragmatic trade policy focused on rebuilding the manufacture of the United States and equipping supply chains.
He said: “If the United States does not have a strong manufacturing base and an economy of innovation, it will only have a little arduous force to deter conflict and protect the Americans.”
(Participated in the reports of David Lauder and Andrea Shallal; additional reports by Bo Ericsson; Sinatia Ostroman, Road Nickel and David Gregorio)
