Sen. Thom Tillis on the House Rejecting Trump’s Tariffs on Canada: There’s a Lot of Exemptions Because of the Existence of USMCA

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TILLIS: "I’ve liked, what I think we need to do is get the usmc a modernization, the agreement on the table and address that in the context of strengthening our relationship with Canada and Mexico. Like that, where a very important trading block— and we should build on our successes as as I’m sure you know a lot of the terror of there’s a lot of exemptions but cause of the existence of usmc, I I think we ought to get a room and sort them out. I’ve had I’ve expressed publicly concerns with a lot of the terrorists or were imposed still to this day, can’t figure out why we have a fifty percent tariff on Brazil when we have a trade surplus with Brazil. Those sorts of things are irrational to me and other cases. I can justify it based on past behaviors of countries that we have a deficit where, but we need to be surgical and not use a blunt force object sure to negotiate trade relationships, particularly with China and max, are I’m sorry with Canada and Mexico."