Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross: He is “deadly serious” about even higher tariffs

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Stronger tariffs on China and other countries could be key tactics in a second Trump presidency, according to one of the architects of his previous ones. "He is deadly serious," former US Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross Jr. told me on my Opening Bid podcast on Friday (watch video above; listen in here) about potential new tariffs. Ross served as the 39th US Commerce Secretary from 2017 to 2021, and is the author of the new book Risks and Returns, Creating Success in Business and Life. The Trump administration slapped 25% tariffs on Chinese washing machines, solar panels, steel, aluminum...