STAT June 23, 2025
Tariffs can’t fix employers’ health care costs
The Trump administration continues to pursue the most aggressive tariff policies since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The intent of this trade war is to reshore a wide variety of American industries. Reshoring seeks to redress the economic harms that resulted from a systematic effort to move manufacturing to lower-cost labor markets abroad, a process that has been occurring for several decades.
But in the national debate over offshoring and reshoring, and the factors that lead to our current situation, one issue has been...







