Lutnick Says Foreign Nations’ Non-Tariff Barriers Are ‘Monster’

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that foreign nations will need to address a host of regulatory and other policies limiting imports of American products in order to secure relief from President Donald Trump’s new reciprocal levies.

“These non-tariff trade barriers, they are the monster that needs to be slayed,” Lutnick said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s Surveillance Thursday. “Our teams are talking to all the great trading partners today,” he said. “It is time for them to do deep soul searching on how they treat us poorly and how to make it right.”

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