For decades, the United States slashed our trade barriers on other countries, while those nations

placed massive tariffs on our products and created outrageous non-monetary barriers to decimate

our industries, and in many cases, the non-monetary barriers were worse than the monetary ones.

They manipulated their currencies, subsidized their exports, stole our intellectual property,

imposed exorbitant VAT taxes to disadvantage our products, adopted unfair rules and technical

standards, and created filthy pollution havens.

They were absolutely filthy, but they always came to us and they said,

we're violating, we should pay for it.

It's all detailed in a very big report by the U.S. trade representative on foreign trade barriers,

and I'll just hold it up for you it's available and

you don't have to pay too much as I understand it you pay nothing it's a lot of work a lot

of work for something actually because it's a special it's a special book it's very

frankly it's very upsetting when you read it when you see what people have been doing to us for 30 years.

This all happened with no response from the United States of America, none whatsoever.

But those days are over.

Let me offer just a few examples of the vicious attacks our workers have faced for so many years. The United States

charges other countries only a 2.4 tariff on motorcycles. Meanwhile, Thailand and

others are charging much higher prices like 60 percent, India charges 70 percent, Vietnam charges 75 percent,

and others are even higher than that. Likewise, until today the United States has for decades

charged a 2.5 tariff. Think of that, 2.5 percent on foreign-made automobiles.

The European Union charges us more than 10% tariffs, and they have 20% vats much, much higher.

India charges 70% or perhaps, worst of all, are the non-monetary restrictions imposed by South Korea, Japan, and very many other nations.

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