Derisky Business LIVE: One Year Since the "Liberation Day" Tariffs

A year ago, the Trump administration unveiled an ambitious plan to reset the global trading system on a day President Donald Trump dubbed “Liberation Day,” overturning decades of precedent and ushering in a new era of a far more assertive U.S. trade policy. While the long-term effects of the administration’s trade strategy remain uncertain, one year of the new trade approach has fundamentally shifted how America talks about the legal, economic, and political dynamics of trade.

Join the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) on Thursday, April 2 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. ET for a live episode of Derisky Business, a podcast from the CNAS Economic, Energy, and Security Program, for a discussion of what has been learned in the year since “Liberation Day.”

​​​​​​​This live episode is hosted by CNAS experts Emily Kilcrease and Geoffrey Gertz and features Kathleen Claussen, professor of law at Georgetown Law; Laura Silver, associate director at the Pew Research Center; and Chris Kennedy, adjunct senior fellow at CNAS. The discussion will assess the legal ramifications of the administration’s trade approach, highlight new polling data from Pew Research on American views on U.S. trade policy, and examine why the economic impacts of the tariffs have not been as severe as initially projected.

Live viewers will have the opportunity to ask questions during the event.