Inside Trade

November 4, 2024

Former officials: Remember Trump is a ‘dealmaker,’ not just a ‘tariff man’

By Oliver Ward  / October 3, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Tariff hikes on Chinese goods and a proposed across-the-board tariff on U.S. imports have dominated discussions about former President Trump’s likely trade policy agenda should he be re-elected, but former Trump-era trade officials tell Inside U.S. Trade a second Trump administration, much like the first, would also have a free trade bent, citing the former president’s penchant for dealmaking. In a first term defined by tariff escalations on imports from China and elsewhere, Trump also pursued multiple liberalizing efforts...

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