Inside Trade

December 7, 2024

NFTC’s Colvin: Tariffs aside, opportunities abound to work with Trump

By Brett Fortnam  / November 19, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Dating back to the Trump administration’s first term, the National Foreign Trade Council has opposed sweeping tariffs -- the most common barriers to what the group exists to promote. But with President-elect Trump’s return to the White House following a campaign full of tariff promises, the NFTC is searching for ways to work with an administration whose worldview in many ways will be anathema. “They’re going to be opportunities as well as challenges,” NFTC President Jake Colvin said in an...

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