Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

What if tariffs aren’t the real trade war weapon? #GlobalSupplyChain

Name: What if tariffs aren’t the real trade war weapon? #GlobalSupplyChain
Uploaded: 2025-06-30T18:20:57+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: Tom Burton argues tariffs are just leverage to force talks on the real issues: intellectual property theft, currency manipulation, and fentanyl…

30 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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Tom Burton argues tariffs are just leverage to force talks on the real issues: intellectual property theft, currency manipulation, and fentanyl smuggling. The harder problems aren't about taxes on goods, they're about stopping what countries actually do behind closed doors.

But these negotiations are not just going to be about tariffs and what you're paying on a tariff the tariff is going to be a component of that and that will fit into the overall broader trade relations for example with China and the fentanyl and Right so and.
Then we don't have the.
IP theft and the other major issues that are.
Behind these things these.
Software issues but that are critical IP you know currency.
Manipulation the other things that go along.
With this it's.
Getting those done fast to me seems.
No that's what I mean it's hard yeah right and honestly I think some of the things that are I think the terrorists were just being in some degree use as a hammer or a big stick to get some of these other issues to the table to be having those discussions around so it's not even that tariff has is the most important thing in those trade relations but the tariff is the stick that has been driving a lot of those.