trade policy: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/trade-policy/ Everyone on the record about trade policy: 12 verbatim quotes from 6 people, May 2022 to August 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:18 +0000 John Williams: Williams expects trade and immigration policies combined with uncertainty to weigh on growth. https://minutesof.com/q/76678b47-6bf5-4cc3-b031-a4a0c7b2d3b7/ https://minutesof.com/q/76678b47-6bf5-4cc3-b031-a4a0c7b2d3b7/ “But based on what the data tell us today, I expect the combined effects of trade and immigration policies and associated uncertainty to continue to weigh on growth.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches trade policy John Williams: Williams describes unusual April 2025 dollar depreciation alongside rising Treasury yields and https://minutesof.com/q/27748950-6cd9-4b8c-9305-9cab78879ba0/ https://minutesof.com/q/27748950-6cd9-4b8c-9305-9cab78879ba0/ “Amid elevated uncertainty in U.S. trade policy last April, we observed unusual price action: the dollar depreciated while Treasury yields rose and equities declined.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches trade policy JD Vance: Vance says the administration supports businesses that build domestically and invest in workers. https://minutesof.com/q/7b38ef2c-d121-44f1-ac51-afe6928d6584/ https://minutesof.com/q/7b38ef2c-d121-44f1-ac51-afe6928d6584/ “That if you're a business that's building in your backyard, if you're investing in your workers and trying to make a great American product, then we are on your side because you are on the side of American workers and American patriots.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:30:18 +0000 trade policy JD Vance: Vance outlines three criteria the Trump administration wants companies to meet: buy, hire, and inves https://minutesof.com/q/62be38c8-db05-4fd7-bb27-dea148c81acb/ https://minutesof.com/q/62be38c8-db05-4fd7-bb27-dea148c81acb/ “We want companies that buy American, that hire American, and that invest in American communities.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:30:18 +0000 trade policy JD Vance: Vance says communities were told for forty years that domestic manufacturing location doesn't matter https://minutesof.com/q/90a7eaad-c946-4619-a12a-98412ea3c6f0/ https://minutesof.com/q/90a7eaad-c946-4619-a12a-98412ea3c6f0/ “For forty years, places like Brewer have been told that it doesn't matter. That it doesn't matter if we make things here in Maine or 5,000 miles away with foreign workers.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:45:22 +0000 trade policy Howard Lutnick: Lutnick says 15% tariff rate was chosen as the trade-maximizing number for the EU deal. https://minutesof.com/q/0901248f-a304-41dc-a170-2bc38850749f/ https://minutesof.com/q/0901248f-a304-41dc-a170-2bc38850749f/ “Yes. Right? Because everyone, otherwise, you just raise your price forever. So there's a price where so we knew that 15% was the maximizing number,” — Howard Lutnick, Pod Force One with Miranda Devine Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:00:06 +0000 trade policy Howard Lutnick: Lutnick says he and Trump designed the tariff policy together over a year before taking office https://minutesof.com/q/14dfd52a-ffc0-4b25-b2f1-4997e199ca3e/ https://minutesof.com/q/14dfd52a-ffc0-4b25-b2f1-4997e199ca3e/ “We designed the tariff policy together, and we talked Did you about the believe in tariffs? Security I didn't really understand tariffs before I met Donald Trump.” — Howard Lutnick, Pod Force One with Miranda Devine Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:00:06 +0000 trade policy Howard Lutnick: Lutnick says he and Trump designed the tariff policy together over a year and a quarter before https://minutesof.com/q/178d3a7d-a5fc-42a1-a550-f83e28228e2b/ https://minutesof.com/q/178d3a7d-a5fc-42a1-a550-f83e28228e2b/ “We talked it through, he taught me, I tell you what, he taught me everything about tariffs. We designed the tariff policy together, and we talked Did you about the believe in tariffs?” — Howard Lutnick, Pod Force One with Miranda Devine Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:00:06 +0000 trade policy Marc Rowan: Rowan worries most about damage to US brand regarding long-term agreements and security pacts from https://minutesof.com/q/21eb5079-579c-412a-825c-43ce56695712/ https://minutesof.com/q/21eb5079-579c-412a-825c-43ce56695712/ “The one I worry about more is the second, which is damage to The US brand. What does our brand mean when it comes to long term agreements, long term security packs?” — Marc Rowan, CNBC Television Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:34:06 +0000 trade policy Marc Rowan: Rowan argues the US is the freest trading market considering non-tariff barriers and questions why https://minutesof.com/q/0befa989-ab2b-49ff-a992-3ab60fa3a5f0/ https://minutesof.com/q/0befa989-ab2b-49ff-a992-3ab60fa3a5f0/ “The US is the second freest trading market in the world financially after Japan and is the freest trading market in the world considering non tariff barriers. Why is that written in stone?” — Marc Rowan, CNBC Television Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:34:06 +0000 trade policy Bill Gurley: Gurley states China's GDP share fell from 33% to 5% after Mao closed the economy. https://minutesof.com/q/f52bec3b-273e-400a-b92e-a375dc082420/ https://minutesof.com/q/f52bec3b-273e-400a-b92e-a375dc082420/ “at the end of Mao's reign, and Mao had raised the wall and and kind of turned China inwards, they had fallen to 5% of global GDP.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:13:28 +0000 trade policy David Sacks: Sacks says Trump broke the Democrats' blue wall by linking bipartisan trade policy to Rust Belt d https://minutesof.com/q/d12b7016-2127-4be1-8b74-d2d2598f3aad/ https://minutesof.com/q/d12b7016-2127-4be1-8b74-d2d2598f3aad/ “He then took the issue of trade and basically broke down the Democrats' blue wall and the Rust Belt by basically pointing out the ways that our trade our bipartisan trade policy, just like our bipartisan foreign you know, our war policy had led to the deindustrialization of the of the Rust Belt.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Sat, 28 May 2022 05:34:50 +0000 trade policy