JAKARTA - The United States (US) is open to removing import duties on goods that cannot be produced domestically for various reasons.
"If there is something that is not produced at all in the US, [US Trade Representative] Jamieson Greer is leading the effort to study this, that there is a desire to exclude some things if they are not supposed to be produced in the US, for example because of the climate or things like that," said the head of the White House National Economic Council Kevin Hassett to CBS, Monday, December 22.
On November 9, US President Donald Trump noted the importance of the tariffs imposed on imported goods, saying that the tariffs had improved his country's inflation rate and caused US stock prices to reach record highs.
He also criticized opponents of the tariff policy, stressing that the US earned trillions of dollars from tariffs, which would help pay off the country's debt of 37 trillion American dollars (about Rp619.2 quadrillion).
In addition, the US leader also promised to pay US citizens, except those with high incomes, with a dividend of 2,000 American dollars (about Rp33.4 million) per person from the tariff revenue.
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