Sen. Merkley on Tariffs: Across the Board Tariffs Is Just ‘a Massive Interruption of Productive International Trade’

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MERKLEY: "You know, the most carefully crafted tariffs would address very low-cost goods from China that are done under low environmental standards and low labor standards. There's often a very good case for a carefully crafted tariff plan to basically make a fair, level playing field for American manufacturing. But across-the-board tariffs that go against other developed economies and proceed to have retaliatory tariffs and who knows where it goes from there, that's just simply a massive interruption of productive international trade and driving up the costs for Americans who can't afford to have those costs driven up."