
Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law

Tariffs and trade protectionism go hand-in-hand—especially when those tariffs are not uniform. Through this lens, every rate transition—and there have been many since January—reshuffles the domestic economy’s winners and losers. This reshuffling has industry and interest group effects, as well as broader rhetorical and pocketbook implications for consumers. And all of these actors are potential