“It’s the transportation of the things that you buy, the production of the things that you buy, and the ingredients of the things that you buy,” says Council Nonresident Senior Fellow Cécile Shea.
A US oil blockade has brought Cuba to the negotiating table. That gives Washington an “extraordinary opportunity” to influence the island’s trajectory and its relationship with the United States. Will Trump’s power play get in the way?
"It appears that President Trump has decided that he's going to be the president that brings democracy to Cuba," Council Nonresident Senior Fellow Cécile Shea says. "It's a dangerous goal."
Cécile Shea unpacks the Supreme Court's ruling against US President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs and how businesses are bracing for the administration's next moves.
"Canada has decided that the US is an undependable trading partner and an undependable production partner," Council Senior Nonresident Fellow Cécile Shea explains.
"The decision is going to come down to whether it's Congress' responsibility to tax people and to therefore regulate tariffs, or whether the president really does have carte blanche to do these things" under the IEEPA, Cécile Shea says.
