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The candidates featured on this page were the noteworthy Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2024 presidential election. Only candidates who addressed this page's issue on their campaign website, in public statements, or in public speeches have a quote featured on this page. See something we missed?Email us. The active noteworthy presidential candidates as of November 5, 2025, were:

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Asa Hutchinson

In an op-ed Hutchinson wrote, "Today, American agriculture faces a similar threat from the 'ring around America' tariffs proposed by candidate Donald Trump. Trump has said he wants to enact across the board tariffs of 10% to all our trading partners. This is not a surprise since Trump has always been an advocate of tariffs, falsely proclaiming that somehow countries pay tariffs when, in reality, the consumers pay this tax on trade."^{[source, as of 2023-10-15]}

Donald Trump

Trump's campaign website said, "The heart of my vision is a sweeping pro-American overhaul of our tax and trade policy to move from the Biden system that punishes domestic producers and rewards outsourcers, to a system that REWARDS domestic production and taxes FOREIGN companies and those who export American Jobs. They will be rewarded and rewarded greatly. And our country will benefit. To achieve this goal, we will phase in a system of universal, baseline tariffs on most foreign products. On top of this, higher tariffs will increase incrementally depending on how much individual foreign countries devalue their currency."^{[source, as of 2023-12-21]}

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