Toronto Star: The goal now is to get the lowest tariff rates possible on the widest possible range of goods, she said.
…“We’re not going back to the world, as much as we would like to, of that kind of tariff-free existence, if for no other reason than you look at the amount of revenues associated with tariffs going into the United States Treasury. That’s a very significant form of how the government is financing programs and services right now in the United States.
“So, we’re into a new world. We don’t know what that looks like,” she said, adding the “uncertainty is very, very difficult for people” but the desire for “certainty and stability” is “more nostalgic than reality.”…