Rubio: Trump Right to 'Reset the Global Order of Trade'
By Ward Clark | 4:27 PM on April 04, 2025
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President Trump has made one intention very clear, that being that he will be working to restore the United States' industrial base. He's been taking steps to do that, and many of those steps have involved tariffs intended to balance trade. This effort has culminated (so far) with the April 2nd "Liberation Day" reciprocal tariffs. Democrats and even some Republicans are opposing the tariffs, but one administration member, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, went on record on Friday in support of the president's plans.
Rubio, speaking at NATO headquarters in Brussels, made the remark after taking issue with a reporter’s claim that world economies are "crashing" in the wake of Trump’s "Liberation Day" tariffs.
"We have to be a country to think we're the largest consumer market in the world, and yet the only thing we export is services, and we need to stop that," Rubio said. "We need to get back to a time where we are a country that can make things, and to do that, we have to reset the global order of trade."
"So the president rightly has concluded that the current status of global trade is bad for America and good for a bunch of other people. And he's going to reset it, and he's absolutely right to do it," Rubio added.
"We have to be a country to think we're the largest consumer market in the world, and yet the only thing we export is services, and we need to stop that," Rubio said. "We need to get back to a time where we are a country that can make things, and to do that, we have to reset the global order of trade."
"So the president rightly has concluded that the current status of global trade is bad for America and good for a bunch of other people. And he's going to reset it, and he's absolutely right to do it," Rubio added.
Secretary Rubio repeated that the United States must once more become an industrial power, a country that makes things:
"I mean, this is, just can't continue. We can't continue to be a country that doesn't make things. We have to be able to make things to provide jobs for Americans... it’s that simple," he said. "China, as an example. I mean, it's outrageous. I mean, they don't consume anything. All they do is export and flood and distort markets in addition to all the tariffs and barriers they put in place."
Granted, tariffs make many uncomfortable, and that discomfort is not limited to the left; free-trade advocates on the right are concerned as well. But, as President Trump points out, free trade has to work both ways, and many nations have heavy tariffs on American goods.
The free-market advocate website Issues & Insights is a little more cautious on the matter, but they are not ruling out the idea that the tariffs may have the desired effect.
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