If one talks of the services industry, it includes: advertising, accounting, cleaning, funerals, education, entertainment, fashion, healthcare, nursing, insurance, IT services, financial and loan services, media, investigative services, law, online services, sex industry, sports business services, travel, tourism, visual arts, wedding industry, language training industry, etc.
The problem she has in bringing this up...is that there are no tariffs in this type of industry...there are visa-control numbers. Virtually every nation that I know of (especially Europe)...requires you to have a work-visa and there are various rules to this.
If you were to open up a MAJOR bucket of worms, just go and include this industry into the chatter, and ask how ‘fairness’ would be measured and monitored.
Trump’s comeback on this would probably be: ...so the German chancellor wants to German hookers, American actors, and Mexican cleaning ladies into the trade talks?
Exactly. Merkel must think we're as dumbeddown as the Germans who keep electing her.