# Professor Gian Luca Clementi explains why re-negotiating trade deals could hurt the consumer tech market

1 Faculty News November 10, 2016 ![Yahoo Finance logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/yahoofinance.jpg?itok=iQnyXkp_)>

Excerpt from [Yahoo Finance](https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trumps-impact-on-consumer-tech-153647155.html) -- "'The way you make money is by broadening the marketplace, so the interest of these companies is to broaden the marketplace as much as possible. But to renegotiate a trade deal could start a trade war that could reduce the size of the market,' [Clementi](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/gian-luca-clementi) explained."

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