Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

Here's why businesses need clarity on tariff laws #TariffStrategy

Name: Here's why businesses need clarity on tariff laws #TariffStrategy
Uploaded: 2025-12-10T19:33:26+00:00
Duration: 1 min 6 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: A short YouTube segment (Tom Burton and Speaker A) arguing that the administration should clarify which tariff statutes it will use rather than applying…

10 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube segment (Tom Burton and Speaker A) arguing that the administration should clarify which tariff statutes it will use rather than applying tariffs as a broad "hammer." Speaker A relates an anecdote from a Chinese manufacturer who expects roughly a 50% tariff for about a year, illustrating business uncertainty. Tom Burton proposes a "billion-dollar" idea: feed the year's data into an AI to predict next year's outcomes (AI forecasting/yearbook synthesis).

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I think what the, the administration, in my opinion, is missing right now is the opportunity to say, look, instead of using this as a hammer, let's just get it done. You know, get the Supreme Court ruling of do you have to. You, can you use the statutes that you used or do you have to use one of the other three or four that we've discussed a number of time on times on the show, pick what it is and then get them settled? Right. Is, you know, I think I mentioned last, last show, not last week, but the prior show. I had met with somebody earlier in the week from a Chinese manufacturing company. And you know, he kind of, I don't say alluded to. He actually said it. He said that, you know, there is a level of thinking at a lot of Chinese manufacturing firms specifically related to the industrial segment which he was involved with. And we had a gentleman visit us, visit us at our offices and we had this discussion and he was saying there's kind of a thinking that for at least a year there's going to be about a 50%.
Tariff there. So.
We'Ll see what comes next out of it.
You know, I just had a, I think, which would be a billion dollar idea, we should take the yearbook like that we're talking about, but then ask AI to use all of the data from this year to predict what's going to happen next year.
Synthesize some data.
Yeah.