President-elect Donald Trump said this week he would enact steep new tariffs on three key U.S. trade partners unless certain demands were met by each as part of Trump’s expected crackdowns on drugs and border crossings by undocumented immigrants.
Tariffs, a tax on imported goods, are typically costs that are passed along by businesses to buyers of products. Canada, China and Mexico, the three countries targeted, rank among Georgia’s biggest trade partners....
“The United States does not make things in their totality — no nation does,” said Susan Ariel Aaronson, professor of international affairs and director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub at George Washington University. “This will create more inflation and jeopardize jobs.