Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190811:17:04:00
The scholars calculated that trump's tariffs last year cost american consumers and firms a staggering $68.8 billion a year. america now has the highest tariffs among the g-7, a group of the world's leading industrialized companies. over time other nations will surely become more protectionist as well. and history suggests once imposed, tariffs are hard to repeal since domestic lobbies that benefit will advocate fiercely for their retention. one example, in 1964, retaliating european tariffs on american chickens, the u.s. placed a 25% tariff on trucks. the chicken tax was long ago repealed, but...