Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was interviewed on Knowledge@Wharton (the business interview program of U Penn’s Wharton School) about Canadian lumber tariffs.
“America First … is … a slogan that describes a policy of America alone, and that will never put America’s interests first.”
“[Prior to the 2006-2015 lumber agreement,] the U.S. lumber industry got crushed by these [subsidized and dumped]Canadian imports and did not get the protection of antidumping duties and countervailing duties that they should have, and it’s time for the U.S. lumber industry to get a break.”
“President Trump likes to bluff a lot, and he likes to throw out really bad bluffs like the one to pull out of NAFTA. Never gauge your expectations on what President Trump says.”
Courtesy of SiriusXM Business Radio Channel 111