Robert Lighthizer

here doing the kind of day-to-day work on Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of Commerce, recommending to the president a series of tariff increases. And now how the form that takes, I don't think it's really been determined yet. I think the direction is, the need is,

here doing the kind of day-to-day work on Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of Commerce, recommending to the president a series of tariff increases. And now how the form that takes, I don't think it's really been determined yet. I think the direction is, the need is,

here doing the kind of day-to-day work on Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of Commerce, recommending to the president a series of tariff increases. And now how the form that takes, I don't think it's really been determined yet. I think the direction is, the need is,

But I think you're going to have to have a system that says here are the issues that are part of this industrial policy that are creating this unfairness. And one of them is, as I say, taxes and value-added taxes. And if people aren't, so we can talk about that in a second.

But I think you're going to have to have a system that says here are the issues that are part of this industrial policy that are creating this unfairness. And one of them is, as I say, taxes and value-added taxes. And if people aren't, so we can talk about that in a second.

But I think you're going to have to have a system that says here are the issues that are part of this industrial policy that are creating this unfairness. And one of them is, as I say, taxes and value-added taxes. And if people aren't, so we can talk about that in a second.

And then the notion that the president has is, well, we'll tariff people in order to get them back to whatever we think of as enough to offset their unfairness. At some point – and he's right, of course. But at some point, you're going to have to simplify that because you can't have 4,000 tariff codes and 180 countries.

And then the notion that the president has is, well, we'll tariff people in order to get them back to whatever we think of as enough to offset their unfairness. At some point – and he's right, of course. But at some point, you're going to have to simplify that because you can't have 4,000 tariff codes and 180 countries.

And then the notion that the president has is, well, we'll tariff people in order to get them back to whatever we think of as enough to offset their unfairness. At some point – and he's right, of course. But at some point, you're going to have to simplify that because you can't have 4,000 tariff codes and 180 countries.

I mean you would need a supercomputer to decide what – so at some point, there's going to be some synthesizing of it. to sort of say, okay, if you're in these categories, if you have these things, you get this rate and that. And the important thing for people to understand, I tried to explain to people, it isn't like he's going to say, okay, here's April 2nd.

I mean you would need a supercomputer to decide what – so at some point, there's going to be some synthesizing of it. to sort of say, okay, if you're in these categories, if you have these things, you get this rate and that. And the important thing for people to understand, I tried to explain to people, it isn't like he's going to say, okay, here's April 2nd.

I mean you would need a supercomputer to decide what – so at some point, there's going to be some synthesizing of it. to sort of say, okay, if you're in these categories, if you have these things, you get this rate and that. And the important thing for people to understand, I tried to explain to people, it isn't like he's going to say, okay, here's April 2nd.

Now, going forward, everything is perfect. You're going to have to have adjustments. We're always going to still be here. There'll be mistakes in the way it's made, and you're going to have to take care of exclusions and individual people and work it out.

Now, going forward, everything is perfect. You're going to have to have adjustments. We're always going to still be here. There'll be mistakes in the way it's made, and you're going to have to take care of exclusions and individual people and work it out.

Now, going forward, everything is perfect. You're going to have to have adjustments. We're always going to still be here. There'll be mistakes in the way it's made, and you're going to have to take care of exclusions and individual people and work it out.

We did that and one of the reasons that when we – when the president imposed tariffs in such a grand way, the last time – it never happened before. The reason that it didn't blow up really was that we let the steam out of the balloon. We had to. We did enough so that we took care of – urgent problems that might have collateral effects, which were not good. And so you're going to see modification.

We did that and one of the reasons that when we – when the president imposed tariffs in such a grand way, the last time – it never happened before. The reason that it didn't blow up really was that we let the steam out of the balloon. We had to. We did enough so that we took care of – urgent problems that might have collateral effects, which were not good. And so you're going to see modification.

We did that and one of the reasons that when we – when the president imposed tariffs in such a grand way, the last time – it never happened before. The reason that it didn't blow up really was that we let the steam out of the balloon. We had to. We did enough so that we took care of – urgent problems that might have collateral effects, which were not good. And so you're going to see modification.

You're going to see change.

You're going to see change.