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We’re not looking for a concession,
Trump said, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon We have to give Trump whatever he wants and even try to anticipate his wants, because who knows how he’ll react if we don’t?”
The practical consequence is that an increasing number of so-called “leaders” – in the private, public and non-profit sectors, and around the world – are telling their boards, overseers, trustees or legislatures I want the North Vietnamese to believe that I’ve reached the point that I might do anything to stop the war.”
In 1968, Richard Nixon told his chief of staff, HR Haldeman If our commercial interests are attacked, Europe, as a true power, will have to make itself respected and therefore react.”
As the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said Election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was. But then the guy pulled out the knife and fucking yanked it into us. We’re supposed to be his closest allies, his closest friend. It’s terrible.”
Doug Ford, the centre-right Ontario premier, was filmed saying on Monday People generally don’t understand how dependent the global economy is for those kinds of intermediate goods, raw materials, that we sort of take for granted,
Willy Shih, an economist at Harvard Business School, told PackagingDive.com Given the wide-ranging negative implications for industrial production in the U.S., we expect this is unlikely to happen in practice,
the Bernstein analysts said Total impact to #gasprices in these areas could be 25-75c/gal, dependent on season and refining factors as well if tariffs go through,
There is probably not a single assembly plant in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Texas that would not immediately be affected by a 25 percent tariff.”
Patrick Anderson, chief executive of Anderson Economic Group, a consulting firm in Michigan, told the New York Times They need to understand where their exposures are,
They’re bad for families and they’re bad for business. I hope the president will reconsider this hasty action that could have a devastating impact on our state’s economy,
Arizona is ground zero for this open border chaos that has cost our state $3 billion in taxpayer dollars annually. Any costs passed onto Americans will be miniscule in the grand scheme and will be offset by his energy and fiscal policies that will bring gas prices and utility prices down, as well as the cost of American goods. I see the tariffs as a tool to enact positive changes,
Tariffs are being used as a tool by President Trump to achieve economic and political outcomes that are in the best interests of America, not only to help stop the flow of dangerous criminal illegal immigrants and deadly fentanyl into the U.S but to put Americans first,
These new taxes threaten to hike grocery and gas prices. They threaten to increase the cost of housing. And they threaten critical Arizona industries that employ tens of thousands of people, including semiconductor manufacturing, agriculture, and the clean energy economy,
Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.”
Canadian tariffs were also paused after Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talked on Monday, with Trudeau saying in an X post It's one of the things that we're going to have to live with, these swings back and forth,
said Keith Lerner, co-chief investment officer at Truist Advisory Services in Atlanta Markets were a little complacent in wanting to believe that some of the threats wouldn't be carried through,
said Mark Dowding, BlueBay chief investment officer at RBC Global Asset Management Unlike with the first Trump administration, there’s no longer an element of surprise; Mexican authorities are ready to negotiate and collaborate with the US,
So we're going to delay this for a month, which just leaves the tariff gun loaded but not fired,
said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley Wealth in Boston They don't have a playbook where they can react so quickly to all these changes in policy implementation,
said Olivier d’Assier, head of applied research for Asia Pacific at investment consultant Simcorp
