we re winning. we re winning. your two great congressmen, we talked about winning before. they came up to me and they said, you know, we have never seen anything like what is happening in this country. nobody has. it never happened before, what is happening with us right now, this is a special industry to me. this is steel. this is another this is steel. we re watching this one closely. it s going up, dave, only up. [applause] for years politicians, other than the three politicians with us today, the politicians ran for office pledging to crack down on unfair foreign trade. only to get elected, get into office and then do absolutely nothing except let our country get ripped off. but i m not like other
and it can t be that way anymore. we lost $500 billion last year with china. we lost $151 billion with the european union, which puts up trade barriers so that our farmers can t trade. we can t send farm products in, for the most part. it s very hard to send cars in. we have countries where, as an example, india, they charge as much as 100% tariff. we want the tariffs removed. what i would like to do and what i offered at the g-7, you remember, i said, let s drop all tariffs and all barriers. is everybody okay with that? and nobody said yes. i said, wait a minute, folks, you re complaining. no tariffs and no barriers. you re on your own. let s do it. it was like they couldn t leave the room fast enough. wouldn t you say it s a risky business here, you could tip the economy into recession? we re so high up, we picked
they don t they don t let our farmers into the european union. it s very hard. so we have farmers that want to sell. you don t hear these stories, this is why. they don t tell you these stories. the european unionas what they call trade barriers. the european union doesn t allow our farmers to go and trade. it s very hard for them to go trade. if they do it, it s very expensive. same like canada. essentially when you pay a 275% tax. now i m understanding it s higher. that s essentially a trade barrier. you can t trade. how can we trade? we can t pay that tax. so i want the barriers taken down. i want our farmers to trade. i want to sell cars in there just like they sell cars here. it s all going to work out. it s all going to work out. remember this. remember this. it s all going to work out. because we re the piggy bank that they like to take from.
you lost $500 billion last year with china. we lost $151 billion with a european union which our farmers can t trade. we can t send farm products in, it s very hard to send cars and appear to be have countries where as an example, they charge as much as 100% tariff. we want the tariffs removed. what i d like to do and often at the g7, i said let s drop all tariffs and all barriers. is everybody okay with that? and nobody said yes. i said wait a minute, you re complaining no tariffs and no barriers, you re on your own. let s do it. and they couldn t leave the room fast enough. speak what you say it s a risky business here, could have tipped the economy into recession and what you plan to do? because we are so high up, we picked up if you look at the kind of numbers we have picked
just remember, we re the bank. we re the bank that everybody wants to steal from and plunder. and it can t be that way anymore. we lost $500 billion last year with china. we lost $151 billion with the european union, which puts up trade barriers so our farmers can t trade. we can t send farm product in for the most part. we want the tariffs removed. what i would like to do and what i offered at the g7, you remember. i said let s drop all tariffs and all barriers. is everybody okay with that? and nobody said yes. i said wait a minute, folks. you re complaining. no tariffs and no barriers. you re on your own. let s do it. and it was like, they couldn t leave the room fast enough. people say it s a risky business here.