White House Economic Adviser Kudlow: Trump believes in free trade - CNBC
The US President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, during an interview with CNBC talked about the recent hot topic of trade tariffs and said:
• Trump believes in free trade
• Cannot has been behaving illegally and unfairly
• President Trump is not damaging the markets
• Trump likely amenable to a coalition to deal with China trade issues
• It takes two to play the game and the President has to stick up to the action
• There are no tariffs now; the US is considering tariffs.
• There are negotiations going on
• President Trump is responding to decades of misdeeds by China
• There may be other things that can be done beside tariffs
• President Trump is a bold guy. Tariffs get your attention.
• Doesn't know if US will impose tariffs on China or not, may be settled with negotiations
• Technology is the heart of innovated entrepreneurial economy. We can't let China steal our technology.
• Good progress is being made on recalibrating NAFTA