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.” 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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