You seem to have missed his point that Norway is buying more goods from the USA.
If trade imbalance is a proxy for protectionism, then it's the US that is protectionist in this instance.
He's punishing the people who are already doing what he says he wants done by the metric he claims to care about. Quite possibly with negative results as they react angrily to that.
Which makes a mockery of all the people in this thread finding 4D chess answers to this stupidity.
If trade imbalance is a proxy for protectionism, then it's the US that is protectionist in this instance.
He's punishing the people who are already doing what he says he wants done by the metric he claims to care about. Quite possibly with negative results as they react angrily to that.
Which makes a mockery of all the people in this thread finding 4D chess answers to this stupidity.