January 29, 2020

White House trade advisor Peter Navarro pushed back Wednesday against the idea that the U.S. would remove tariffs on Chinese imports if the deadly coronavirus begins to weigh on China’s economy.

“That’s a spin that’s coming right out of Wall Street, and it really, I think, it does a disservice to this whole crisis to bring that into the discussion,” Navarro said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.”

Navarro was responding to a question from CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla, who asked whether a tariff rollback was on the table if China was abiding by the terms of the “phase one” trade deal but started to see its economy hurt by the coronavirus.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/29/us-will-keep-tariffs-on-china-even-if-coronavirus-starts-hurting-growth-navarro.html