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The truth is that tariffs have a long and storied history as both a revenue-raising tool and a way of protecting strategically important industries…

— Scott Bessent

One thinks that one is winning when we slap tariffs or introduce barriers to imports from another country, and we think we win. But…

— Roberto Azevedo

First of all, a president of the United States can't unilaterally impose a tariff on another country. It takes an act of Congress, and…

— Sherrod Brown

A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we've got to look at…

— Richard Shelby

Trade wars in which countries are then obliged to retaliate by raising their own tariffs against the initiator undermine growth and hurt consumers. Far…

— Dominic Grieve

Tariffs are in the end taxes. And somebody has to pay that tax. I think one thing people are forgetting is that trade disputes…

— Greg Ip

Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going…

— Wilbur Ross

I think that tariffs in a way can be regarded as an economic sanction without a sanction.

— Scott Bessent

The problem with tariffs is they shift higher costs onto the backs of non-protected industries and consumers.

— Stephen Moore

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

— Ambrose Bierce

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

— Albert J. Nock

People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.

— John Kasich