Nov. 17, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement in support of President Donald Trump’s reductions of tariffs on several agricultural items the United States does not produce or does not produce enough of:
“Food prices have skyrocketed since the beginning of 2021 by 26 percent, but average weekly earnings only increased 20 percent. Only 1.9 percent of the price increase has been since President Trump reassumed office in January, and so while the tariffs were not the cause of the inflation at all — for that we should look to the $6.3 trillion printed during and after Covid and the global supply crisis from the economic and production lockdowns that did not catch up to demand after the economy reopened — the President’s pivot on tariffs for agriculture is therefore very timely to help boost imports and increase supplies.
“For, ultimately, what will matter the most is not the tariff rate, but how much of the foodstuffs are imported. Whatever we’re not producing enough of, and the prices are still too high for, we should endeavor to import more. Politically, the President and Republicans might discover that it is better to flood the markets now particularly with food than to wish they had later.”
Attachments:
“Cutting Prices Is Job Number One, Mr. President,” By Robert Romano, Nov. 6, 2025 at https://dailytorch.com/2025/11/cutting-prices-is-job-number-one-mr-president/
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