{"id":350947,"date":"2018-03-06T03:38:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-insists-on-tariffs-new-nafta\/"},"modified":"2018-03-06T03:38:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:38:58","slug":"trump-insists-on-tariffs-new-nafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-insists-on-tariffs-new-nafta\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump insists on tariffs, new NAFTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>While Republicans are anxiously lobbying US President Donald Trump to reconsider his plans to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the US, Trump has brushed off such demands saying &#8216;We&#8217;re not backing down&#8217; on steel tariffs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;No, we&#8217;re not backing down,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the White House, claiming the US \u201chas been ripped off by virtually every country in the world, whether it\u2019s friend or enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Asked if the move could trigger a global trade war, Trump said, \u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to have a trade war.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning Trump also tweeted about tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from America\u2019s neighbors Mexico and Canada, which along with the US, are signatories to the North American Free Trade Agreement, commonly known as NAFTA.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;We have large trade deficits with Mexico and Canada. NAFTA, which is under renegotiation right now, has been a bad deal for U.S.A. Massive relocation of companies &amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/06\/554484\/Trump-EU-Macron-Ryan-tariffs-GOP-steel-aluminum\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Republicans are anxiously lobbying US President Donald Trump to reconsider his plans to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the US, Trump has brushed off such demands saying &#8216;We&#8217;re not backing down&#8217; on steel tariffs. &#8220;No, we&#8217;re not backing down,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the White House, claiming the US \u201chas been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}