Gradually Quote by Scott Bessent

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

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

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

As someone who's built business, I take tariffs and their effects very seriously and would only employ such negotiation tools when absolutely necessary.

— Mike Braun

If you put tariffs in place, it creates inflation. If you put inflation in place, you have to raise interest rates. You raise interest…

— Bill Browder

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

— P. Chidambaram

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

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

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins,…

— Mark McKinnon

I believe in removing barriers in international trade. Part of the reason is that this creates huge markets for all of our products.

— Petro Poroshenko

Trade policy can be a tool for change and progress.

— Barry Gardiner