Business Rundown: A Call For "Reciprocal Tariffs"
The Fox News Rundown
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🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:29.8 | I'm Taylor Riggs, and this is the Fox Business Rundown. |
| 0:45.2 | Friday, February 14, 2025. This week after unveiling tariffs on steel and aluminum, |
| 0:51.6 | President Trump signed a memo to explore how the U.S. can put reciprocal tariffs in place, |
| 0:57.5 | telling the press that if our trade partners charge us, then we charge them. |
| 1:03.3 | Because what it's essentially saying is, if you don't want us to raise our tariffs on you, |
| 1:06.5 | then you should lower the tariff you have on us. |
| 1:09.2 | It puts other countries in the hot seat. |
| 1:14.9 | And what I think you might end up getting out of this, not surprising with Trump, are some deals. The Trump administration, after issuing a flurry of tariffs, is now looking into how they can levy even more in the approaching months. |
| 1:23.5 | The Commerce Department and U.S. trade representatives have been directed to study the various |
| 1:28.4 | ways America is being charged on trade. The president's memo calls for plans to be made on how to |
| 1:35.6 | issue these reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trade partners, saying in the Oval Office that this is for |
| 1:41.2 | the purpose of fairness and that whatever countries charge the United |
| 1:45.6 | States of America, we will charge them, no more, no less. His focus on tariffs in the first |
| 1:51.8 | 100 days goes back to a campaign promise of his that he would aim to balance the nation's trade |
| 1:57.9 | deficits. Now, another headline this week was inflation. |
| 2:01.6 | The January CPI report showing inflation rising 3%. |
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