This new episode of the Rethinking Trade podcast is a little different. It’s about tariffs, an issue that’s critical to get smart about now…

At a recent live panel with Congressmembers Debbie Dingell (D-Mich) and Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA) and our labor friends, Lori led a discussion about why much of the conventional wisdom on tariffs is wrong.

 

Like, if you are for enforceable labor standards in trade agreements or climate Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms, you are FOR tariffs.  

And tariffs do NOT necessarily increase consumer prices. But price-gouging corporations like to use tariffs as an

excuse to raise prices. And, yup, that story you hear over and over on tariff raising washing machine prices is wrong.