Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross: Trump is ‘deadly serious’ about higher tariffs

Listen and subscribe to Opening Bid on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Stronger tariffs on China and other countries could be key tactics in a second Trump presidency, according to one of the architects of his previous one. “He is deadly serious,” former US Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross Jr. told me about potential new tariffs on Yahoo Finance’s Opening Bid podcast on Friday (watch video above; listen below). Ross served as the 39th US Commerce Secretary from 2017 to 2021 and is the author of the new book “Risks and Returns, Creating Success in…