Inside Trade

October 5, 2025

Trump: 50 percent tariff could be needed to boost U.S. manufacturing

By Jason Asenso  / October 16, 2024 at 11:27 AM
A 10 percent tariff might not be enough to convince companies to move manufacturing to the U.S., former President Trump said on Tuesday, suggesting tariffs on U.S. imports might have to be set as high as 50 percent in some cases. Trump has campaigned on a plan to impose tariffs of 10-20 percent on all U.S. imports and a 60 percent tariff on all imports from China. During a Tuesday interview at the Economic Club of Chicago , the Republican...

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