U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday (July 9) said African nations are going to lower their tariffs and that the United States treats Africa better than China does, adding that five African countries were unlikely to face U.S. tariffs. Trump, meeting with the leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal at the White House, added that he did not think those countries at the gathering were likely to see any U.S. tariffs. Trump also said he would release more letters to countries notifying them of tariff rates, including Brazil. Trump said the tariff rates announced this week were based on "very, very substantial facts" and past history.
00:00I think the penalty should be for these people who are if they are found guilty the formula was a formula based on common sense based on deficits based on how we've been treated over the years and based on raw numbers and we're going to have a couple of more coming out today. Brazil is an example has been not good to us. Not good at all.
00:25We're going to be releasing a Brazil number I think later on this afternoon or tomorrow morning whatever happens happens and now a few weeks after the here to face tariffs as well.
00:37I haven't thought of it but I maybe I don't know let's say I like him him him him and him no I don't think so not too much very good these are friends of mine now.
00:47Thank you very much. Well we treat Africa great in many different ways including with tariffs but you know parts of Africa charge us tremendous tariffs as you know and they're going to be dropping those tariffs they've already informed me they're going to be dropping those tariffs but we treat Africa far better than China or anybody else anyplace else.
01:10Something was going on but hard to believe that they got away with it for so many years and we really haven't had too many complaints because I'm keeping them at a very low number very conservative as you would say number and we haven't had sure they will be complaining at certain points but we haven't had complaints we've been treated very unfairly by both friend and foe.
