President-elect Donald Trump has proposed a variety of tariffs at various times, including up to 20% on all U.S. imports, 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico and up to 60% tariffs on imports from China. Journalistsmust consider how sweeping tariffs might affect consumers and industries in their communities.

Join The Journalist’s Resource and Econofact for an hourlong, on-the-record webinar about the future of tariffs in 2025, days before the second Trump administration begins.

Panelists will discuss:

• How steel tariffs in the early 2000s affected exports, production and employment.
• What broad-based tariffs could mean for U.S. consumers in 2025 and beyond.
• A brief history of tariffs in the U.S.
• Ideas for humanizing stories about international tariffs and interpreting research for a general audience.
• Your questions!

The panelists will be:

Lydia Cox, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She receivedher PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2022. Prior to that she served as a Research Economist at the Council of Economic Advisors from 2014 to 2016. Her research focuses on the macroeconomic effects of U.S. trade and fiscal policy.

Doug Irwin, the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Irwin is the author of Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2017), which The Economist and For the University of Chicago Press, 2017), which The Economist and Foreign Affairsreign Affairs selected as one of their Best Books of the Year. He was recently president of the Economic History Association. He worked on trade policy issues while on the staff of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers and later worked in the International Finance Division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C.

Alex Goldmark, executive producer of National Public Radio’s Planet Money. During his time there, the economics reporting unit has expanded from a twice-weekly Planet Money podcast to add a second, short daily podcast, The Indicator. Under his leadership, his team has also won various awards including a Peabody, a duPont-Columbia and a Murrow award. 

Michael Klein, the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at Tufts University and founder of Econofact.

Clark Merrefield, senior editor for economics and legal systems at The Journalist’s Resource, moderator