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    Tariffs vindicate Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro

    by Don Lee, Los Angeles Times Mar 12, 2018 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Minutes before President Donald Trump entered the White House Roosevelt Room on Thursday to announce sweeping tariffs on imported metals, the president's economic A-team stood stone-faced near the president's podium - but not Peter Navarro.

    The 68-year-old former University of California, Irvine economics professor looked almost gleeful as he waited for Trump to issue final orders levying 25 percent duties on foreign steel and 10 percent on aluminum, all in the name of national security.

    Trump's move defied his own party and has infuriated U.S. allies. But the tariffs represent just the kind of shocking, shake-up of the status quo on trade that Navarro has long advocated.

    And in the last several weeks, perhaps no one has emerged as a more forceful public champion of the White House's explosive new trade policy than Navarro, who has made multiple appearances on national television

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