“Absolutely everyone is calling,” Collinson told CNBC. “Firms are prepared,” SUNY Buffalo finance professor Veljko Fotak, one of the authors of the 2021 study, told CNBC. “The American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail. On Thursday, Steve Madden pledged to reduce its Chinese imports by 45% over the next year in anticipation of Trump’s tariff plans. There’s got to be some way to help companies like that,” Sorini of Sorini, Samet & Associates told CNBC.

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Persons: Donald Trump, Nicole Bivens Collinson’s, Collinson, Sandler, Travis, Rosenberg, ” Collinson, Trump, ” David French, “, ” Ron Sorini, ” Sorini, Veljko Fotak, ” Tiffany Smith, Karoline Leavitt, ” Leavitt, Steve Madden, There’s, ” Organizations: CNBC, Wall Street, National Retail Federation, Samet, Associates, Republican Party, White, SUNY Buffalo, National Foreign Trade Council, Trump Locations: China, America