特朗普暗示美国可以退出世界贸易组织

Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that the US could pull out of the World Trade Organisation and said that the EU had been created largely to compete against the US in international trade.

上周日，唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)暗示，美国可以退出世界贸易组织(WTO)。他还表示，欧盟(EU)的建立在很大程度上是为了与美国在国际贸易中竞争。

In an interview with NBC, the Republican presidential candidate said that the US might withdraw from the WTO if his plans to use tariffs to bring factories back from Mexico were challenged.

在接受美国全国广播公司(NBC)采访时，这位共和党总统候选人表示，如果自己利用关税将工厂从墨西哥迁回美国国内的计划遭遇挑战，美国可能会退出WTO。

Mr Trump has made trade a central part of his populist economic message and has in the past threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement and levy tariffs on Chinese goods. His comments on WTO appeared to take his anti-free trade rhetoric up a further notch.

特朗普已将贸易当作其民粹主义经济理念的核心内容之一，他以前曾威胁要让美国退出《北美自由贸易协定》(North American Free Trade Agreement)、并对中国商品征收高额关税。此番关于WTO的言论，似乎进一步抬高了其反自由贸易的调门。

Mr Trump said he would consider imposing a tax of 15-35 per cent on US companies that had moved manufacturing to Mexico. Asked if such a policy would not contravene WTO rules, he replied: “It doesn’t matter. Then we’re going to renegotiate or we’re going to pull out. These trade deals are a disaster, the World Trade Organisation is a disaster.”

特朗普表示，他将考虑对已将生产迁至墨西哥的美国公司加征税率为15%至35%的税。当被问及此类政策是否与WTO规则冲突时，他回答说：“没关系。届时我们将重新谈判，或者退出。这些贸易协定是一场灾难，WTO是一场灾难。”

Remarking that he was “the only one of all of these people at the higher level of the wonderful world of politics” who predicted a British vote for Brexit, Mr Trump said he was not worried about the risk of the EU fracturing.

在谈及自己是“奇妙的政治世界所有高层人士中唯一一个”预测到英国公投会决定退欧的人时，特朗普表示，他并不担心欧盟分裂的风险。

“Don’t forget, Europe got together, why, primarily did they get together? So that they could beat the United States when it comes to making money, in other words, foreign trade,” he said.

“别忘了，欧洲联合在一起，他们当初为什么联合起来？这样做他们就能在赚钱——也就是对外贸易——方面击败美国，”他说。

“Hey, I love Europe, I have property in Europe. I’m just saying, the reason that it got together was like a consortium so that it could compete with the United States.”

“嘿，我爱欧洲，我在欧洲有财产。我只是在说，欧洲联合起来就是为了像一个集团一样，这样就能与美国竞争。”