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The president will be addressing the decades of unfair trade practices that have ripped our country off and American workers off,
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday in previewing Trump’s announcement, while declining to offer any further details
There are measures that we can take that at a minimum, level the playing field with the United States and again it depends on the broader measures they take tomorrow, if indeed, they do against Canada,
Carney said
I think all of us are anxious to see … what the president actually comes out with in terms of tariff policy,
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters
Setting a more certain baseline on tariffs and more specificity allows us to start planning for the new circumstance, and then to start negotiating it item by item, country by country, product by product, and see what the rules are for waivers,
Cramer added
Taxes, under the Constitution, are supposed to originate in the House, then come to the Senate. But they're certainly not to be passed by a president, with only the president voting in favor of them, and no vote by Congress,
Paul said
The emergency is being invented to do the tariffs, to do the taxes on everyday Americans. Why? So they can use the tariff revenue to give a tax cut to billionaires,
Kaine saidThis isn't blind faith — remember what he accomplished in the first administration before COVID,
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters of Trump’s tariffsWe have seen the tariff announcement and we are evaluating the impact,
Munoz said at an auto show in South Korea
Their Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) just left (US recently). He is a great friend of mine, but I said to him that 'you're a friend of mine, but you've not been treating us right'. India charges us 52 per cent, so we will charge them half of that - 26 per cent.”
While making the announcement on Wednesday, he saidThis will obviously lead to major economic disorder on the products impacted, not only in Europe but also in the United States,
she added
They risk being pretty powerful. People are speaking of tariffs between 20 and 25 percent,
Primas told reportersThe message is congratulations, if you make your car in the United States, you’re going to make a lot of money. If you don’t, you’re going to have to probably come to the United States, because if you make your car in the United States, there is no tariff.”
Asked what his recent message to automotive industry CEOs was and whether he had warned them against raising prices, Trump said
He’ll eventually get around to us,
said Barnes, a third-generation net-makerI don't think I have ever mentioned the word uncertainty as many times as I have in the last few weeks, because we simply don't really know to this day, which is supposed to be the day when it is announced, what the deal (with the U.S.) will be for the rest of the world,
she saidIt will be negative the world over and the density and the durability of the impact will vary depending on the scope, on the products targeted, on how long it lasts, on whether or not there are negotiations,
Lagarde said in an interview on Ireland's Newstalk radioThere’s no script for how reciprocal tariffs get priced, and uncertainty is the only constant,
Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said
If you’re going to remodel your house to make it better in the end, it’s going to be really annoying in the short term, when your house is getting remodeled and there’s drywall dust everywhere and there’s workers in your living room,
Sheehy added
We don’t believe in an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, because that always leads to a bad situation,
Sheinbaum told journalists at her daily news conferenceIt’s simple: If you make your product in America, you will pay no tariffs,
Leavitt saidOn average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, Mexico, and Canada — have you heard of them? — and countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them. It’s very unfair,
he said