Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was quoted in a CNN article about the steep tariffs that Trump Administration might impose on steel, which might affect trade relations between the United States and China.
If Trump goes big on tariffs, the U.S. economy would be affected, too.
“A [U.S.] retaliation sufficient to change China’s conduct would be so large as to significantly injure both the United States’ and China’s economies,” said Matt Gold, an international trade law expert at Fordham University. “So one questions whether that’s the most effective way to go about this.”