Senator Roy Blunt says President Trump knows very well whether the
Senator is in agreement with tariffs placed on Chinese goods.
“No, I’m not,” said Missouri’s senior senator Thursday in an interview with
Brownfield Ag News. Senator Blunt added, however, that the Chinese are not being
fair in their dealings with the U.S. and that a trade dispute is justified.
“That’s a reasonable fight to have if you’re going to have a fight,” he said, “but
to do that and do that effectively, you ought at the same time be doing
everything you can to be opening alternative markets.”
The president should be working on other trade agreements, said Blunt, “so that
we would have that area to look to and frankly able to really compete with
China in a way that was to our advantage, and the Transpacific [Partnership]
would have been good.”
Senator Blunt says he would also like to see some bilateral trade agreements
made.
