U.S. Trade Rep. Greer on Already Imposed Tariffs: Those Agreements Will Remain, ‘We Expect Our Trading Partners to Honor Them’

RUSH EXCERPT:GREER: "Right, so we have negotiated a number of substantive trade deals. the most recent yesterday being in trade deal with Indonesia where they agreed to lower all of their tariffs. all of their non-tariff barriers et cetera. in each of these agreements, the other countries agreed to lower their tariffs and non-tariff barriers. cooperate with us on a number of areas. and then the United States has the right under those agreements to impose a tariff at a certain level. in the case of malaysia or cambodia it’s 19% for example. and those agreements hold. those agreements will remain, we’ll honour them. we expect our trading partners to honour them. for a year I’ve been telling them that regardless of the direction of this litigation, we will impose tariffs. at levels that they agree to."

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U.S. Trade Rep. Greer on Already Imposed Tariffs: Those Agreements Will Remain, ‘We Expect Our Trading Partners to Honor Them’‘We’ll honor them’News & Politics,InternationalRUSH EXCERPT:GREER: "Right, so we have negotiated a number of substantive trade deals. the most recent yesterday being in trade deal with Indonesia where they agreed to lower all of their tariffs. all of their non-tariff barriers et cetera. in each of these agreements, the other countries agreed to lower their tariffs and non-tariff barriers. cooperate with us on a number of areas. and then the United States has the right under those agreements to impose a tariff at a certain level. in the case of malaysia or cambodia it’s 19% for example. and those agreements hold. those agreements will remain, we’ll honour them. we expect our trading partners to honour them. for a year I’ve been telling them that regardless of the direction of this litigation, we will impose tariffs. at levels that they agree to."Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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