Meeting

Transition 2025 Series: Tariffs and Trade

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Reuters/Leah Millis

Speakers

Heather Hurlburt

Associate Fellow, U.S. and the Americas Program, Chatham House

Dennis C. Shea

Executive Director, J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center; Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (2018-21)

Benn Steil

Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations; @BennSteil

Patrick J. Toomey

Board Member and Advisor, Apollo Global Management; Former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (R); CFR Member

Presider

Ana Swanson

Trade Reporter, New York Times

Panelists discuss the potential impacts of President-elect Trump’s proposed trade policies on global supply chains and analyze shifts in U.S. trade policy over the last eight years.

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