Donald Trump on Tuesday (October 15, 2024) mentioned the U.S.’ allies have taken benefit of it greater than its enemies. File
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Former president and Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday (October 15, 2024) mentioned the U.S.’ allies have taken benefit of it greater than its enemies.

“Our allies have taken benefit of us greater than our enemies. Our allies are the European Union. We’ve a commerce deficit of $300 billion with the European Union,” Mr. Trump informed the Financial Membership of Chicago in response to a query.

“We’ve commerce offers that had been so dangerous that I mentioned, who’re the folks which might be doing it? They’re both very silly or they’re getting paid off,” he mentioned.

“I put tariffs on China, 27.5%. In any other case, we might be flooded with Chinese language automobiles. All of our factories would shut. We would don’t have any jobs in any respect within the auto trade. That goes for electrical energy, which is a killer, which I’ve defined. I put tariffs on South Korea as a result of they had been sending in vehicles. I put tariffs on pretty substantial tariffs,” he mentioned.

“Are you aware that our automotive firms make virtually all of their cash with the small vehicles, SUVs and small vehicles? If I took these tariffs, you’d be inundated. Each automotive firm could be out of enterprise,” Mr. Trump mentioned.

Responding to questions on Russia, he defended his relationship with President Vladimir Putin.

On tariff, he reiterated that India is a tricky nation.

“India is a really robust nation. It is not solely China. China, I might say in all probability the hardest. You already know what’s very robust? European Union, our lovely European nations, great, great. Should you add them up, they’re virtually the dimensions of us. They deal with us so badly. We’ve a deficit,” Mr. Trump mentioned.

“We’re going to convey the businesses again. We will decrease taxes nonetheless additional for firms which might be going to make their product within the USA. We will shield these firms with robust tariffs as a result of I am a believer in tariffs,” he added.