“The whole premise of what we’re trying to do is pain on them, not pain on us,” Navarro said. “If we simply put the tariffs on Sept. 1 that would be more pain on us, rather than pain on them. That’s just silly.”
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, in a separate interview on Fox Business Network, said the decision to delay the additional tariffs was made to limit the pain on U.S. businesses, which already had contracts to buy Chinese goods for the holiday selling season and had no way to avoid passing costs on to consumers.