Season 2 Episode 21

Tariffs and Trade Policy with Dr. Bill Hauk

• Host
  • Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management
• Guest
  • Dr. Bill Hauk, Assistant Professor, Economics

The news is full of economic policy these days as the One Big Beautiful Bill was signed into law on July 4th and tariffs received another delay shortly thereafter. In this episode from June 17, 2025, Dr. Bill Hauk discusses trade deficits, tariffs, and who is really benefitting from the economic shuffleboard happening right now.

William R. Hauk, Jr. is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina, where he arrived after receiving a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in California and a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He has taught international trade, intermediate macroeconomics, principles of macroeconomics and government policy toward business at the undergraduate levels and regularly teaches an international trade course for the doctoral program.

Topics in this discussion include:

• Bill’s professional and academic journey and expertise in global economic policy
• Foreign Direct Investment and South Carolina as a recipient thereof
• The Trump perspective and resulting trade policy
• The impact of tariffs on South Carolina trade
• The growth of global supply chains and trade deficits
• The role of automation and other factors in trade deficits
• Who really pays tariffs
• Smoot Hawley and what history has taught us about tariffs
• Trade deficit as a security risk

To learn more about Bill Hauk click here.

Learn more about the Darla Moore School here

Episode photo courtesy Wilson Center blog "Tariffs 101"

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