Seventy-eight percent of voters say ‘enough’: Now Trump must get Asia to play fair

Published September 21, 2026 10:00am ET | Updated September 21, 2026 2:09pm ET



The next few weeks offer a tremendous opportunity for President Donald Trump and his team to push world leaders for fair market access. As the administration conducts bilateral and multilateral engagements in New York at the United Nations General Assembly and Wisconsin for the G20 Trade Ministerial, we hope that it will continue to press counterparts, particularly in Asia, on the basic economic principle that fair treatment is a prerequisite for fair trade.

Trump has been right to place reciprocity squarely at the core of his trade policy, and now we have the data to show that Americans want him to keep pushing. A national survey commissioned by the U.S.-Asia Fair Market Alliance in August of this year found rare bipartisan consensus that Democrats and Republicans consider it a priority for the U.S. government to address the unfair international trade policies targeting American companies abroad.

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