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President Donald Trump stands in the colonnade in the Rose Garden at the White House on January 19, 2018 in Washington, DC.
World leaders speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos have made it clear that they disagree with the anti-free trade rhetoric coming out of the United States.
Without always naming the United States, the heads of state of Brazil, India, Canada and Italy all said they disagree with what they believe is an anti-free trade stance from the world’s biggest economy.
“We know all too well that we live in a world where isolation trends are gaining ground, however, we all know that protectionism is not a solution,” Michel Temer, the Brazilian president, told an audience in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.
“When we are closed within ourselves, we are closed to new technologies, we are closed to new ideas, to new possibilities and we therefore remain closed to actual effective solutions to our shared problems,” he added.
President Donald Trump, who will address the Davos audience later in the week, has been a vocal advocate against multilateral trade, criticizing many of the country’s partners for supposedly taking advantage of the United States.
