Tariffs: Business Strategy Playbook

In today’s global economy, understanding tariffs is essential for business leaders, policymakers, and entrepreneurs alike. Whether you’re trying to navigate shifting trade policies or seeking ways to protect your company from tariff risks, this course will give you the insights you need to make informed decisions.

What You’ll Learn:

• The 5-Step Business Playbook: Gain a comprehensive, actionable framework to assess tariff risks, adapt your supply chain, adjust pricing, and outmaneuver competitors to safeguard your market position in a world of evolving trade policies.

• The Basics of Tariffs: Dive into the core questions around tariffs—how they work, why governments use them, and what they mean for business.

• Effectiveness of Tariffs: Explore whether tariffs can truly fix trade deficits, revitalize manufacturing, and drive economic growth, or if they just add cost and complexity to businesses.

• Tariffs as a Business Threat: Understand how tariffs can disrupt your operations, inflate costs, and impact your pricing strategy, and learn how to anticipate these changes to protect your business’s financial health.

  
  

Course Structure:

1. Tariffs 101: How Governments Use Them & Why It Matters

• Can tariffs effectively target smart policymaking goals?

• Can high and broad-based tariffs fix the U.S. trade deficit or rebuild manufacturing employment?

• Are tariffs a form of industrial policy for the United States?

2. Tariffs 102: New Tax Revolution or Wishful Thinking?

• Who really pays for tariffs on U.S. imports?

• Should tariffs fund government spending?

• Are tariffs easier and more transparent to collect than other forms of taxes?

• How can businesses productively counter Trump’s tariffs?

3. The Economic Impact of Tariffs: 7 Lessons from Canada

• Seven ways U.S. tariffs impact Canada’s economy.

• Five key economic assumptions about tariff shocks.

4. Tariffs & the U.S. Economy: Winners, Losers, & Surprises

• How important are U.S. trade relations with Canada, Mexico, and China?

• Will tariffs lead to a recession, and how will this impact U.S. growth?

• Which sectors will be hit hardest by tariffs?

• How easy is it to “reshore” impacted sectors?

• How might tariffs impact U.S. inflation and consumers?

• Can tariffs generate significant revenue for the U.S.?

• How difficult is it to substitute tariffed imports?

• How might the U.S. Federal Reserve respond?

5. European Businesses at Risk: Which Sectors Face U.S. Tariff Pressure?

• Five sectors most exposed to U.S. tariffs.

• Five responses European companies can pursue.

6. The Five-Step Business Playbook to Survive Tariffs

• Discover five proven tactics that companies use to mitigate tariff costs, with examples from BMW, Tesla and Whirlpool.

Who This Course is For:
This course is perfect for business executives, investors and entrepreneurs looking to understand tariffs and their strategic implications. It’s also ideal for students wanting to develop a better understanding of global trade and tariffs.

Why Take This Course?

• Safeguard Your Business: Learn how tariffs affect your supply chains, margins, and pricing, and gain actionable strategies to protect your business from unexpected tariff impacts.

• Make Informed Decisions: Master the complexities of tariff policies to better navigate global trade, identify new opportunities, and mitigate risks.

• Gain a Competitive Edge: Stay one step ahead of your competitors by understanding how to adapt and thrive in a world of shifting tariffs and changing trade policies.

Enroll Now and Turn Tariff Challenges into Business Opportunities!