Trump defiant on tariffs, claims secret talks promising

Published June 26, 2018 6:03pm ET



President Trump stood firmly behind his recent decisions to apply tariffs to foreign goods, despite an increasing number of retaliatory import taxes on U.S. goods, saying that non-public negotiations are promising.

Trump said if trade negotiations failed, he would be satisfied with that outcome, too.

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