They still don't get it?
Speaking on Sky, Ms Rishworth said the government will “throw everything” at the negotiations, and said they were “unjustifiable moves” and not what you’d expect from a “friend and an ally”.
“We have, of course, continued to work through this and be in contact with those Americans in the administration to work through in a methodical and consistent way. And we’ll continue to put forward that these tariffs should be removed from Australian steel, and we’ll continue to do that and put forward our national industries.”
They still don't understand this has nothing to do with justice, reasonableness, consistence or methodology, the tariffs are "whims," that's all, Trump could agree to reduce tariffs one day, then a few days later decide to just increase them again. If there was any methodology or justice in the tariffs then Australia shouldn't have had any applied because we were buying more from the US, given the argument for applying the tariffs, we should have been applying tariffs to them, not the other way around. You can go in there with your justifications, your methodology and consistency and talk to whoever you want, and it will get you nowhere because Trump just makes shit up, and you can't get around "just makes shit up" with negotiations!
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy ... f46fd20b0f