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Marketplace Morning Report

Tariffs on Day One

Marketplace Morning Report

American Public Media

News, Business

4.5808 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll put tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on his first day in office. In a post on Truth Social, Trump singled out Mexico and Canada — the U.S.’s two largest trading partners — saying he’d impose 25% tariffs on goods from those countries until they do more to stop fentanyl and migrants from crossing the border illegally. Plus, a shortage of accountants. We look into how some accounting educators and associations are rethinking CPA requirements in an effort to attract more young people to the profession.

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0:00.0

Tariffs on day one.

0:03.0

From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshore in for David Brancaccio.

0:07.0

President-elect Donald Trump says he will put tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China on his first day in office.

0:12.8

In a post on truth, Social Trump singled out Mexico and Canada, the U.S.'s two largest trading partners,

0:17.9

saying he'd impose 25 percent tariffs on goods from those countries

0:21.2

until they do more to stop fentanyl and migrants from crossing the border illegally.

0:25.5

The BBC's Will Grant is in Mexico City.

0:28.3

Mexicans and certainly officials in Mexico remember the first Trump presidency,

0:34.9

perhaps not in the greatest of lights in terms of that kind of rhetoric.

0:39.8

The rhetoric was always, it's Mexico's fault.

0:42.3

They're not doing enough.

0:43.3

They've got to do more.

0:44.4

Why haven't they done enough?

0:46.2

And this, I think, is the first sign that it's going to take that kind of tone again.

0:50.7

I think it comes down to this question of how will that actually translate to policy,

0:55.2

given it would cause so much disruption, given the fact that these three nations, including

1:00.4

Canada, need to figure out the renegotiation of the USMCA, their regional free trade agreement

1:06.6

in 2026. What is the likelihood of a genuine 25% tariff on Mexican products going to the

1:13.4

US when they're worth billions of dollars a year?

1:17.2

That's the BBC's Will Grant. Tariffs are paid by Americans, not foreign countries,

1:21.5

according to estimates from the Budget Lab, the promised tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China

1:25.1

would cost U.S. households on average almost $1,200 a year. You know how companies report every quarter on how they're doing

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