Feb 10
Carl Talks—Trump 2.0: Making Tariffs Great Again? with Warren Maruyama ’76
Carl Talks
Trump 2.0: Making Tariffs Great Again?
with Warren Maruyama ’76
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
2 p.m. Central Time
via Zoom
Are you curious about President Trump’s tariffs, worried about what they could do to the economy and your investments, thinking about buying a new car or why clothes, furniture, and coffee suddenly got more expensive, or wondering about the Supreme Court challenge to the President’s tariff authority?
Warren Maruyama ’76, a leading international trade lawyer and former General Counsel of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and former Associate Director for International Economic Policy on the White House staff, will try to explain (1) why the President’s tariffs represent a sea-change from post-war U.S. trade policy, (2) why the President has broad legal authority to impose tariffs even though the Constitution originally vested tariff authority in the Congress, (3) what we know about the President’s thinking and decision-making process on tariffs, (4) the President’s track record so far on tariffs and trade deals, (5) what it could mean for the economy, and (6) the issues in front of the Supreme Court in a major challenge to President Trump’s tariff authority under the International Emergency Economy Powers Act (IEEPA).
Register by Monday, February 9 to participate in this Zoom event.
Warren Maruyama ’76 recently retired as a partner at Hogan Lovells, a leading Washington D.C. law firm. He served as General Counsel of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) for President George W. Bush. He was one of USTR’s lead negotiators for the so-called “May 10 Agreement” with the House Democratic leadership, which resolved a decade-long impasse over the role of labor and environmental rules in U.S. free trade agreements (FTAs) and cleared the way for Congressional approval of the President’s Peru, Korea, Colombia, and Panama FTAs. Warren served on the White House staff as Associate Director for International Economic Policy for President George H.W. Bush, helping develop the President’s Super 301, NAFTA, Uruguay Round, Steel Trade Liberalization, and Enterprise for the Americas initiatives. He was an Associate General Counsel at the USTR from 1983-1989, and helped negotiate the final House- Senate conference agreements on the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 and Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988. He started his career in the federal government as a staff attorney at the U.S. International Trade Commission. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Japanese-American National Museum, the National Advisory Committee of Asian-Americans Advancing Justice, and the Advisory Committee of the Yeutter Institute at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He is married to Kara Chittenden and has two children Hana ’12 and Noah.
Cost: None.
Unable to join our live event? No problem — we will post a recording of the event on our Alumni Events Recordings page.
Questions? Contact Alumni Relations via email or 800-729-2586.