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We’re thinking in terms of 25% on Mexico and Canada, because they’re allowing vast numbers of people”
Trump said in response to questions from reporters in the Oval Office on Monday night Canada’s a very bad abuser,
Trump said, complaining about the current of fentanyl and migrants across the northern US border None of this should be surprising. The one thing we’ve learned is that President Trump at moments can be unpredictable,
Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s finance minister, told reporters shortly after Trump’s comments You’d put a universal tariff on anybody doing business in the United States, because they’re coming in and they’re stealing our wealth,
To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is 'tariff,'
Trump told the Chicago Economic Club in October US businesses would welcome a deliberative approach that identifies unfair trade practices and helps Americans succeed in the global economy,
said Jake Colvin, president of the National Foreign Trade Council, which represents a broad swath of large American companies on trade matters We may. But we're not ready for that yet."
Asked by reporters at the White House whether he would impose a universal tariff on all imports into the United States, Trump said Tariffs are going to make us rich as hell,
Trump later told supporters at Capital One Arena in Washington It's something I've been thinking about for a long time,
Trump remarked during the Oval Office press briefing Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State'
I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families,
Trump said in his speech in the US Capitol Rotunda Monday It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our Treasury coming from foreign sources,
Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,
A focus now on such purchases both buys time before more aggressive tariffs and suggests the US might be open to such purchases and investment targets,
He chose not to do a kneejerk tariff move today that could then be negotiated away, but the Trump administration and Republican Party goals for tariff revenues suggest that the tariff threat is still out there,
Rachel Ziemba, an economic and political risk expert, told Al Jazeera America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have, the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are going to use it,
Trump said in his inauguration speech at the US Capitol The common theme is really unleashing affordable and reliable American energy,
an unnamed Trump official was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency It sounds like maybe he's been listening to the people telling him that immediate tariffs would really hurt the financial markets,
said William Reinsch, a trade expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies The universal tariff was a core part of the economic plan he ran on, and I think he’s going to do what he said he would,
said Kelly Ann Shaw, a former White House trade adviser during Trump's first term This is an idea he's supported for a long time,
Shaw, now with the Hogan Lovells law firm, said in an interview last week
