The White House is continuing to insist that the entire world is beating down President Donald Trump’s door to strike new bilateral trade deals as a result of his decision to impose or threaten massive unilateral import taxes on imports from America’s top trading partners in an effort to forcibly undo decades of integration and globalization of complex supply chains.
On April 13, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro claimed that Trump could use a 90-day pause on the most punishing tariffs that had been rolled out in an April 2 announcement for what the president had dubbed “liberation day” to negotiate new trade agreements with much of the world.
