Disparate Impact Theory Rejected for DEI, but Embraced for Tariffs
Peter Navarro: “the sum of all cheating”
TARIFFS:
The data that President Trump put out on foreign countries’ existing tariffs and non-tariff barriers turns out to be something else entirely, a fact already pointed out by me and others.
Trump’s table purports to show “Tariffs Charged to the U.S.A. Including Currency Manipulations and Trade Barriers.” Â But for most countries with which we have a deficit, it actually presents that country’s trade deficit with the US, shown as a percentage of that country’s exports to the US.
The Administration is claiming that the trade deficit is the correct measure of the total of all tariffs, currency manipulations, and non-tariff barriers—or as Peter Navarro put it on CNBC—”the sum of all cheating.”
In essence, the Administration is adopting disparate impact theory and a
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