Liars Poker?
Published: Aug 30, 2019, 4:19 p.m. ET
By Robert Schroeder, White House reporter
President Donald Trump on Friday took a slap at what he called badly run companies, saying there isn’t a problem with tariffs as the U.S. and China were set to impose new levies on each other’s products beginning Sunday.
‘WE DON’T HAVE A TARIFF PROBLEM’
With individual companies and business groups complaining about the effects of his trade war, Trump said on Twitter, “Badly run and weak companies are smartly blaming these small Tariffs instead of themselves for bad management…and who can really blame them for doing that?”
Trump didn’t name any companies. On Wednesday, a coalition of 161 manufacturers, farmers, retailers, natural gas and oil companies as well as other business groups, sent a letter asking Trump to postpone tariff rate increases on Chinese goods slated to take effect this year. More businesses and farmers say they are suffering amid the U.S.-China trade war, as the Wall Street Journal writes, with Best Buy Co. BBY, +0.25% among the latest firms to warn of the impact of tariffs.
The U.S. government will begin collecting 15% tariffs on $112 billion in Chinese imports beginning Sunday. The Associated Press says when the tariffs kick in, 69% of the consumer goods Americans buy from China will face import taxes, up from 29% now. China’s retaliatory measures take effect the same day.
Saying “we don’t have a tariff problem,” Trump went back to his regular criticism of the Federal Reserve, pressing the central bank to more aggressively cut interest rates. “If the Fed would cut, we would have one of the biggest Stock Market increases in a long time,” the president claimed.
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