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There’s very little in [the] consumer electronics space that is not imported. … These are goods that people need, and higher prices are not helpful,
Barry said
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It’s a story about the art of the deal,
Fox News host and former Trump spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said Tuesday on the networkI think what President Trump is trying to do is saying if we get together and solve this problem, those tariffs need not happen,
media mogul Steve Forbes said Tuesday on Fox NewsAnother way to think about this is it’s 4 to 5 months of a normal year’s inflation in one fell swoop,
Ernie Tedeschi, The Budget Lab’s director and the former chief economist under the Biden administration, said in an emailThe last thing Americans want is upward pressure on their family finances,
the organization’s statement readWhat would happen is, the U.S. would put on tariffs, and then China would put on tariffs in a bunch of places really important to Republican constituencies,
Kurlantzick saidWe hope the U.S. side will also have no intention to contain or suppress China,
Xie said, ... according to the embassy’s transcript
There’s a lot of hope here that he can be a bridge and help keep things calm, ... I don’t know if that is more wishful thinking than clear analysis.”
Kennedy said,If the Chinese are suffering 60% tariffs across the board, the likelihood of their wanting to cooperate in other realms of the relationship goes down dramatically,
O’Hanlon saidEuropean countries will be less likely to strike any kind of bargain with Trump than Canada or Mexico,
said Peterson Institute for International Economics nonresident senior fellow Gary Hufbauer
Our assumption is that all these other countries, all these other advanced economies, especially in Asia, they will retaliate in kind,
economist Bernard Yaros of Oxford Economics told AFPWhat he definitely does is alienate all his allies,
he told AFPWe believe that there is a circumstance where we can make additional investments to reassure Canadians that all of the measures necessary are in place and will continue to be in place,
LeBlanc said
We can't sit back if they're going to put tariffs on 25 per cent of the goods crossing the border, we need to go back and put 25 per cent tariffs,
Ford saidWhat I think is important now, and the premiers spoke to this as well, is showing Canadians visibly and demonstrably the presence of law enforcement at our borders, talking about the good work that the federal policing units of the RCMP, with partners in provinces and municipalities, do,
LeBlanc said
I don't think that we're going to be able to get an exemption if we don't take seriously the real issues that have been put on the table here,
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I think that diplomatic channels, albeit urgently, are perhaps the best first line of attack, if you will,
Furey said in an interview with CTV News ChannelI think if we try to diminish those or say, yeah but we're not as bad as Mexico, yeah, but we have a good trade relationship, I think we'll have missed the point,
Smith saidWe know that other provinces, ourselves included, are working on ways to get sheriffs and drones to the border so that we can demonstrate with action that we are serious about addressing the issues that we've heard about,
Smith said in an interview with CTV News Channel Wednesday nightWe were very united, and we all really agreed that right now, what Canada needs is for us to work together,
Freeland said