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Board hears regional briefing on potential U.S. tariffs; asks staff for county options including foreign-trade zone work
Summary
San Diego County officials received a staff briefing on possible federal tariffs and voted to ask the chief administrative officer to return with options — including use of the Foreign Trade Zone program and support for small and midsize exporters — while acknowledging uncertainty about national trade policy.
Vice Chair Lawson Reamer and the San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 28 heard a staff presentation on proposed federal tariffs and their likely effects on the regional economy, then voted to have county staff return with options to support local businesses, with Supervisor Joel Anderson recording the lone no vote.
The presentation, led by Matthew Parr, director of the Office of Economic Development and Government Affairs, and Dr. Nikia Clark of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (EDC), described how tariffs work and noted the San Diego region’s large, binational, small-business–heavy economy. “A tariff is a tax assessed on the import of a foreign good,” Parr said, and the cost of such taxes is “either absorbed by the importer or passed on to the consumer.” Clark told the board that 98% of…
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