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If a similar deal isn’t reached, then I think it has the potential to be fairly intense,
said Clark Packard, research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies Raising the costs of those imports would be hard for those firms,
We still expect the US will levy more tariffs on China later this year as part of its larger trade policy goals,
they said in a note to clients on Tuesday I’m in no rush,
Trump told reporters that day It’s really hard to put numbers on these effects — but they would be appreciable by any measure,
The operations would be horrendous in terms of implementation,
If you inspect every package, it’s going to raise costs dramatically for consumers,
Clark Packard, a research fellow at Cato Trade, said This is a movie we’ve seen before, and it doesn’t bring jobs back to the U.S., and it does raise costs, so it’s a challenge for us to see the end game or the point,
If we get tariffs, we will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer, and we’ll pass them through,
AutoZone CEO Philip Daniele told investors in September There’s just a lot of uncertainty about how to price goods, because it’s a 10% tariff now on top of whatever duties we’re already paying, but what will it be a month from now or two months from now
said Matt Priest, president of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America It’s almost impossible to confidently cost your goods without knowing where this duty plane will land,
The vast majority of these orders are valued less than $800, which means all or virtually all of them are going to get caught in that,
Youssef Squali, an analyst at Truist Financial, said I knew the costs were going to go up, and these are manufactured in China,
Salaytah said of a probe test light he purchased before Tuesday's tariff went into effect These tariffs on U.S. LNG directly undermine the Trump administration’s efforts to expand American energy exports and strengthen our geopolitical influence,
These factors could adversely affect our ability to market the remaining production capacity of our projects, which could have a material adverse effect on the viability of our projects and on our business,
Venture Global told investors at the time There is not a dollar value you can put on saving American lives from fentanyl deaths,
the official said, reflecting U.S. concerns that China is a major source of the drug and chemicals used to make it The tariffs may impact long-term contracting and offtake agreements...and make it more difficult for new US LNG projects to progress toward Final Investment Decisions,
analysts at energy consulting firm EBW Analytics told customers in a note on Tuesday, referring to Beijing's decision to impose retaliatory levies on U.S. energy imports That's about one-fifth of China's total growth of the year, which is of course overstated,
The first thing it's going to hit is confidence because the Chinese, like everybody else, thought that Trump was just for negotiating—when he's not. This is an ideological on a subject in which he thinks he holds the Holy Grail,
David Roche, a strategist at the geopolitical risk advisory Quantum Strategy, told CNBC The Chinese tariffs do not go into effect until five days from now, a long time in Trump world. Let's see whether a call with Trump-Xi call happens and if Beijing gets a month's reprieve like our USMCA [United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement] partners. It will also be instructive to see which other issues may come up on such a call, given the various tension points in our bilateral relationship."
Wendy Cutler, vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute and a former acting deputy U.S. trade representative, said
