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A focus now on such purchases both buys time before more aggressive tariffs and suggests the US might be open to such purchases and investment targets,
He chose not to do a kneejerk tariff move today that could then be negotiated away, but the Trump administration and Republican Party goals for tariff revenues suggest that the tariff threat is still out there,
Rachel Ziemba, an economic and political risk expert, told Al Jazeera The common theme is really unleashing affordable and reliable American energy,
an unnamed Trump official was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have, the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are going to use it,
Trump said in his inauguration speech at the US Capitol I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families,
It sounds like maybe he's been listening to the people telling him that immediate tariffs would really hurt the financial markets,
said William Reinsch, a trade expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies This is an idea he's supported for a long time,
Shaw, now with the Hogan Lovells law firm, said in an interview last week The universal tariff was a core part of the economic plan he ran on, and I think he’s going to do what he said he would,
said Kelly Ann Shaw, a former White House trade adviser during Trump's first term Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,
The American dream will soon be back and thriving like never before,
I’ll have to refer you here to The Wall Street Journal, … who had the exclusive on trade policy.”
But when asked directly about plans for new tariffs or other trade actions, an official said only One action President Trump could take out of the gates is to test whether China really meant what it said by bringing an enforcement action,
The benefit of Section 338 from Trump’s perspective is that, unlike Section 301 and Section 232, it does not require a lengthy investigation before tariffs can be imposed,
The big question, though, is to what extent 338 is still valid law,
But for someone like (Commerce secretary nominee Howard) Lutnick, who has said repeatedly that he loves using tariffs as threats, this is gold because it is so broad and ambiguous,
To me, that’s quite plausible, because that’s just kind of a down payment on where they’re headed,
That’s kind of the best of all worlds for Trump World,
To the contrary, China continues to retaliate against the U.S. for other ongoing actions on economic security,
Unfortunately, the hard-fought Phase One deal was disrupted by some combination of Covid, the Biden Administration’s disinterest, and China’s unwillingness to follow through,
Clete Willems, a former Trump administration official, said in an email Guys like me will scream bloody murder, but it doesn’t really do much except then give Trump this kind of loaded weapon to run around the world,
