China Quote by Scott Bessent

I would recommend that tariffs be layered in gradually.

— Scott Bessent

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

For too long, the conventional wisdom has rejected the use of tariffs as a tool of both economic and foreign policy. However, like Alexander…

— Scott Bessent

Used strategically, tariffs can increase revenue to the Treasury, encourage businesses to restore production and reduce our reliance on industrial production from strategic rivals.

— Scott Bessent

Tariffs can't be inflationary because if the price of one thing goes up, unless you give people more money, then they have less money…

— Scott Bessent

President Trump's first-term tariffs did not raise the prices of the affected goods, despite predictions back then that the tariffs would prove inflationary. Indeed,…

— Scott Bessent

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

— Thorstein Veblen

[Donald Trump] basically has said, 'No it's more of a threat than an actual reality.' I do not think we're going to see tariffs…

— Maria Bartiromo

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

It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer…

— Viviane Reding

Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at…

— E. M. Forster

Many students don't really like it (fashion). If they don't like it, they won't be able to tell you who the stylists are or…

— Louise Wilson