Calls for broad-based high tariffs misguided, says U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen
NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday that the calls for walling America off with high tariffs on friends and competitors or treating even its closest allies as transactional partners are deeply misguided.
Speaking at a dialogue hosted by the non-partisan think tank Council on Foreign Relations, Yellen criticized the idea of introducing broad-based tariffs and stressed