# Professor Lawrence White discusses how tariffs will impact the economy

1 Faculty News December 17, 2018 ![PolitiFact logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030740.jpg?itok=AksI8GU5)>

Excerpt from [PolitiFact](https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/dec/17/donald-trump-says-tariffs-will-make-america-rich-a/) -- "The consensus among economists, White said, is that 'tariffs, like any tax, generally introduce an inefficiency and makes the two sides of the trading relationship poorer — not richer.'"

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