Elon Musk: “Generally free trade is more efficient, tariffs tend to…”

“Yeah, yeah. Like the lead comes from a country, the wood comes from another country, the rubber from another. You've always been against tariffs, but. Yeah, I mean, I think there's Generally free trade is more efficient, tariffs tend to create distortions in markets. and generally like you think about any given thing. So, like, would you want tariffs between you and everyone else at an individual level? That would make life very difficult.” (1:40:12–1:40:25)

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