“Strategically expand tariffs to all Chinese products and increase tariff rates to levels that will block out “Made in China” products, and execute this strategy in a manner and at a pace that will not expose the U.S. to lack of access to essential products like key pharmaceuticals.”
Citation: Project 2025, Section 4.6: Trade, Peter Navarro, page 821, paragraph 2
Context:
I would love to see the logistics on that one. One possible way is graduated tariff increases on different categories of Chinese products over time. Another way is targeted exemptions for “essential” products. If they wanted to cut off China across the board (as Navarro seems to be arguing for), you’d have to first diversify your supply chains for essentials into (for example), Mexico, India, Vietnam. Navarro doesn’t detail the plan for this.
Full contextual analysis of Section 4.6: Trade here.
Section: Section 4.6: Trade