Trump Promised Australia: No Steel or Aluminum Tariffs

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast




Donald Trump “emphatically” promised to exempt Australian steel and aluminum from import tariffs during a meeting with Australia’s prime minister last year. The vow was witnessed by senior lawmakers on both sides, including U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, Australia’s national broadcaster, ABC, reported. The promise was made in the “steel cage,” the president’s mobile secure-communications pod, on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2017. The Australian government has, therefore, been stunned by statements by U.S. officials that there will be no country-specific exemptions to the tariffs. The tariffs were announced in an impromptu fashion by Trump last week, when he said that he intends to impose a 25 percent tax on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum, on national-security grounds. Australia exports about $500 million of steel and aluminum to the U.S. a year. The U.K. has also been blindsided by the move; Prime Minister Theresa May raised her “deep concern” over the proposed new tariffs in a phone call with Trump on Sunday. The EU is said to be preparing retaliatory measures.

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[lark]

1. drumpf is a criminal fraud cheater traitor but more than anything else, he's a total LIAR.

Anyone who believes and trusts him is a patsy as far as he's concerned. He demands total and personal loyalty, but never ever gives it because it's not in him to do so. He's evil, through and through.

[Ohiogal]

2. Get used to it, Australia

We can tell you with absolute certainly NEVER to hold Dumpy to whatever he promised you before. He says something different every 24 hours.

[Laurian]

3. Anyone (including heads of state) who believes anything tRump says is a fool.

He's nothing but a lying, wishy washy, ignorant con man and his word is worthless

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "government has, therefore, been stunned"

No government around the world NOR media outlet here, should be "stunned" by anything the nightmares in the WH and Congress are doing.

It is the strategy to leave people "stunned" into silence while going about dismantling everything they can in order to hurt as many people as they can so they can profit. It really is a "Shock Doctrine", a term oft-thrown around under previous administrations but truly happening under this one because Congress is fully in collusion with it.

[malthaussen]

5. Then they should have known what was coming.

Agreed, must be tough for foreign countries to make diplomacy with us, when there is a lying madman in the White House.

-- Mal

[NCjack]

6. Shame on PM Turnbull for being deceived by lying Pres. Trump. nt

[riversedge]

7. But Trump said no exceptions for our allies!

[dalton99a]

8. "I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee it."