Peter Navarro is a kook.
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As the majority of mainstream economists ridicule President Donald Trump’s system of taxing imports from other nations based on their trade deficits, Navarro, 75, defends it under his belief that it is bad for the United States to import more from a country than Americans export to it.

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As the majority of mainstream economists ridicule President Donald Trump’s system of taxing imports from other nations based on their trade deficits, Navarro, 75, defends it under his belief that it is bad for the United States to import more from a country than Americans export to it.