More Trump Tariffs Are Coming But CEOs Sound Prepared

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : "He's a super genius," Trump told supporters on Wednesday.
52% : Trump later tweeted, attaching a photo of the kiss.
49% : "I thought he made a very compelling argument," Trump told reporters the next day.
45% : Some national leaders similarly courted Trump, and seem to be preparing to do the same in a second term.
45% : Until the next day: Juncker marched into Trump's office for the meeting and planted a healthy kiss on Trump as a greeting that not only charmed Trump but caused him to order up a Rose Garden press conference to quickly unveil the unfinished deal.
44% : But that doesn't include doing what Trump wants companies to do.
43% : Aside From TariffsTariffs aren't the only ways Trump can upend global trade.
43% : Delivering on much of what Trump promised on the campaign trail may depend on who controls Congress, something that hung in the balance on Wednesday with the Senate in Republican hands and House races still being counted.
39% : Everett Eissenstat, who served as Trump's representative to the Group of Seven and G-20 in his first administration and is now a partner at law firm Squire Patton Boggs, said there was little to stop Trump from carrying out his tariff threats.
39% : That would lead to an average tariff hike on China of around 20 percentage points, they calculated -- a level lower than the 60% Trump has threatened.
39% : Mindful of the risk their trade surplus with the US presents, South Korean officials have for months been drafting a plan to boost energy imports from the US if Trump is elected, Bloomberg reported this week.
35% : A strong dollar that leads to US companies selling less overseas might anger Trump and only cause him to double down on protectionism.
34% : Given the scope of the potential fallout, Anna Wong, Bloomberg Economics' chief US economist, says the most plausible scenario is that while Trump will increase some bilateral tariffs, he won't impose universal tariffs.
33% : "Though Trump repeatedly shrugged off economists' warnings about his tariffs, the scale of the potential impact may also eventually end up giving him and his advisers pause.
32% : Trust IssueThere are those who also worry about a broader erosion in global trust in the US even if Trump is slow to deploy his economic weapons.
29% : But whether Trump would embrace the deal was unclear, people close to the talks said.
27% : Trump has signaled anger at Chinese investments in Mexican factories to produce electric vehicles and other products and avoid his original tariffs.
20% : Still, senior bankers say privately that companies and policymakers around the world are confident they learned how to deal with Trump and his trade wars during his first term.

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