Trump Proposes Import Tariff: Real estate developer...
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Trump Proposes Import Tariff: Real estate developer and airline owner Donald J. Trump proposed placing a tariff on imports, saying the United States is being “ripped off” on the global market. “Japan has truly taken advantage of the United States,” Trump told about 700 people gathered at a monthly meeting of the Wings Club, a 1,500-member aviation group, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. “West Germany, and now we get a double dose, is truly ripping us off,” he said, in an apparent reference to the opening of the Berlin Wall to East Germany. “It’s frightening, it’s scary.” The solution would be a 20% tax on imports from those nations, he said.
