Why We Need Free Trade: A Free Trade Center Interview Series with Brian Riley

Do tariffs achieve the policy aims they are instituted to achieve? Does the track record of the Trump and Biden administrations suggest that instituting new tariffs will power American manufacturing and support American workers? Or, alternatively, have tariffs proved ineffective and economically harmful? Bryan Riley, director of the National Taxpayer Union’s Free Trade Initiative, joins Policy Analyst David McGarry to discuss the history of the Trump–Biden tariffs and what that history can teach policy makers going forward.