Tariff Refunds Should Go to US Workers as Bonuses, Greer Says

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer called on companies seeking refunds for the almost $170 billion in tariffs overturned by the Supreme Court to give any money they receive back to their workers.

“If I were these companies, and somehow they get this windfall, the most important thing and the smartest thing they should do is give it as bonuses to their workers,” Greer said Friday in an interview on CNBC.

“The whole reason the president imposed these tariffs was to try to reshore, to fix our massive imbalance in trade that we’ve experienced over many years because of China, Vietnam, ...