Tag: Tariffs

"They can raise their tariffs, but so what?"

“Let me tell you, you don't negotiate like I negotiate.”

Thailand is seeking to increase U.S. imports, while lowering taxes on American goods.

“If the tariffs keep going up and up, it becomes a battle of wills and principles rather than economics.”

“And those tariffs next year will make us $1 trillion.”

"By invoking emergency power to impose an across-the-board tariff on imports from China that the statute does not authorize, President Trump has misused that power, usurped Congress’s right to control ...

"These tariffs threw us a lifeline that we needed to hopefully live to fight another day in our industry in this country."

"We have emphasized more than once that trade and tariff wars have no winners."

"This is a game changer, not only for the U.S. economy but for the global economy."

"I stand against the idea of skipping democracy, of skipping the constitutional republic, of rejecting our founding principles, not because I have any animus towards the president."

“The Heard and McDonald Islands are completely uninhabited.“

“… we’re setting the stage for long-term economic growth…”

"We will approach these negotiations from a position of strength. Europe holds a lot of cards, from trade to technology to the size of our market."

“The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military co-operations, is over.”

"Business is coming back to the United States so that they don't have to pay tariffs."

"President Donald J. Trump announced today that the United States of America will be putting what is known as a Secondary Tariff on the Country of Venezuela."

"We’re ready to engage with the U.S. on a comprehensive negotiation — when Canada is shown respect as a sovereign nation."

"To be honest with you, Canada only works as a state ... we don't need anything they have."

"The markets are going to learn, let the dealmaker make his deals. Let the best negotiator, and the best person who cares about America, let him make the deals."

"They actually love what I'm doing but they had a problem ... it's called flexibility, it's not inconsistency."