Navarro defended Trump’s tariffs both for their own sake and as a negotiating tactic. He lamented that the United States runs a $1 trillion trade deficit, which he said is equivalent to transferring that amount of money from the U.S. to other countries each year.

Members of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade team are unified in their goal of shifting the U.S. government from relying too much on income taxes and focusing more on revenues from tariffs and other external sources,

The Trump administration’s senior trade counselor also dismissed concerns that the president forced only minor concessions from Canada and Mexic