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We’re going to make America rich again.”
Absent IEEPA, there would need to be some kind of agency action first before any trade remedy tariffs can be imposed … but everything seems to be on the fast track,
So the president is more than happy to lower tariffs if countries want to lower tariffs. But let's also recognize that tariffs, higher tariffs, are not the biggest part of the problem in many, if not most cases,
At the international level, there’s something like 5,000 different descriptions at the 6-digit (product subheading) level, so 5,000 times 186 nations. It’s almost an artificial intelligence project,
I've decided for purposes of fairness that I will charge a reciprocal tariff,
I've read a lot about the Holocaust in books,
Our partners must do far more for Europe's defense. We must make NATO great again, ... President Trump
Hegseth told reporters after the talks in Brussels, warning Very simply, it’s if they charge us, we charge them,
the President said on Sunday during a flight on Air Force One Under the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act, other countries will have two choices -- they'll get rid of their tariffs on us, or they will pay us hundreds of billions of dollars, and the United States will make an absolute FORTUNE."
In a campaign video, he said Should Trump's system be based on average tariff rates, then 'true' reciprocity would require US tariff rate reductions on goods from dozens of countries,
he added in a recent report Every country will be reciprocal,
An eye for an eye, a tariff for a tariff, same exact amount."
During election campaigning, Trump promised Trump's objective of implementing reciprocal tariffs is to ensure fair treatment for US exports, which could indirectly also address US trade imbalances with partner countries,
THREE GREAT WEEKS, PERHAPS THE BEST EVER, BUT TODAY IS THE BIG ONE: RECIPROCAL TARIFFS!!! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!,
This is something he believes strongly in, and it’s very simple logic as to why the President wants to impose reciprocal tariffs.”
Leavitt echoed Trump’s message on Wednesday, saying Major exporting nations of the world attack our markets with punishing tariffs and even more punishing non-tariff barriers,
Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro told reporters, taking aim at the European Union in particular over VAT This should be a matter of weeks, in a few months, but not much longer than that,
the official added, speaking on condition of anonymity Tariffs impart a modest stagflationary shock to an economy,
One of the objectives is to create uncertainty as a negotiating tactic, but uncertainty is a tax on doing business,
Jeffrey Schott, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told AFP It’s time to be reciprocal,
Trump told reporters earlier this week