Former UK minister: Trump’s tariffs too broad

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Former UK Defense Minister Sir Gerald Howarth says Trump has a point on tariffs but should apply them more selectively, not indiscriminately. #Trump #Tariffs

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00:00Okay, so Gerald let me turn to you picking up on what Scotty just said there and we've heard from President Trump

00:06He says for decades our country's been looted pillaged raped and plundered by nations both near and far

00:13Friend and foe alike has he and Scotty saying these tariffs are mathematically fair. Have they got a point?

00:20I do think to a certain extent there is a limited point. The truth is that other countries have

00:28Subsidized particularly manufacturing and one thinks immediately, of course of the People's Republic of China and

00:36once they have

00:38Dominated a market, of course, they're then in a very powerful position to determine the cost of the product

00:46So I have some

00:48limited sympathy

00:50From that point of view and would agree with Scotty to that extent

00:54I don't actually think that it is going to be in the long-term interests of the United States

01:00to

01:02impose these sweeping

01:04tariffs a

01:06different range of tariffs for different countries

01:09Across the world. I think it's a it's a scattergun approach. Whereas what I think the United States might have been more beneficially

01:17Inclined to do would be to target particular countries where there is unfair trade and

01:24Fairness, I know is what President Trump has been very keen to articulate and

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