# Professor Lawrence White discusses the potential impact of Donald Trump's proposal to increase tariffs on goods from China and Mexico

1 Faculty News June 21, 2016 ![PolitiFact logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030740.jpg?itok=AksI8GU5)>

Excerpt from [Politifact](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jun/21/donald-trump-has-floated-big-tariffs-what-could-im/) -- "'Retail prices for imported goods into the U.S., and for domestic goods that are reasonable substitutes for imported goods, would increase,' said [Lawrence J. White](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white), a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'This surely does mean a higher cost of living.'"

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