Trump’s trade representative defends sweeping global tariffs [SOUND]

# US Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, says America faces unfair, unbalanced, non-reciprocal trade, which has driven president Donald Trump to call a national emergency on tariffs. Trump claims that a ten-percent tariff on all nations and much higher rates of up to 50-percent on individual countries will boost the US economy and protect jobs. Testifying to the Senate’s Finance Committee on Tuesday, Greer said America’s large trade deficit has been over 30 years in the making, and it will not be resolved overnight: