Sweetening the Deal: Sugar Tariffs Should Protect American Growers
President Trump has ushered in a new era of American exceptionalism. The government has untethered American manufacturing from burdensome regulations and streamlined the tax code to foster innovation.
As part of this broader shift, President Trump and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer have held foreign governments accountable for the unfair trade practices that have put American manufacturing and agriculture at a profound disadvantage. President Trump saw shuttered factories, bankrupt farms, and strategic industries handed over to foreign nations and said: no more.
It truly is the Golden Age for American manufacturing. Essential industries are coming back to American soil. Investments in semiconductor production, pharmaceutical development, vehicle manufacturing, and more are happening across the country.
The cornerstone of this effort has been President Trump's strategic deployment of tariffs.
President Trump once said that "tariff" is the "most beautiful word in the dictionary." And with Ambassador Greer at the helm of trade policy, the administration has utilized tariffs to implement what Ambassador Greer calls "a trade policy that accelerates re-industrialization." This approach reflects his commitment to putting........
