By Kristen Altus | Fox Business
Less than one day after President Donald Trump signed off on a reciprocal tariff plan, the administration’s Treasury secretary shut down any economic concerns around the state of global trade.
“President Trump is serious about negotiating this. And look, I don’t understand why there’s any pushback on this, that if they want to bring all these barriers down, then we will have more frictionless global trade,” Scott Bessent said Friday in an exclusive interview on “Mornings with Maria.”
“As we’ve learned with President Trump, you should take him at his word. This is not theater,” he continued. “The April 1 deadline is for a study that the Commerce Department is doing on global tariffs that apply to U.S. products country by country.”