Trump tariffs address national security concerns, Rubio says

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to reporters during a stop in Ireland on Wednesday


Marco Rubio says tariffs are not there to "punish” other countries, but steel and aluminums are "national security concerns" for the US.

Speaking to reporters at an airport in Ireland, he says President Trump introduced tariffs because he wants to "develop a domestic capability”. Read more----

“If you don’t have steel and aluminums, you can’t build warships, you can't build airplanes,” he says.

He adds that there were “a lot of unfair trade practices – a lot of countries out there who subsidies their industries so that they can gain global market share…that’s why you can't produce aluminums, and that really threatens our national security in the long term”.

Previous US trade policy "left us deeply vulnerable", Rubio claims, "to any sort of interruptions in global supplies and or it being used to extort us".  Read more----

 

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