A General Disagreement on Tariffs and Trade

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🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The first COMMENTARY Podcast of the week explores the political philosophy behind Donald Trump’s preferred trade policies. Does the European consensus on the value of liberal internationalist trade differ from America’s? Do the benefits associated with the liberal consensus around global commerce sacrifice national identity and cultural cohesion? If so, can the balance even be restored? Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Tuesday March 6th.
0:29.9	I'm John Pudhor. It's the editor of commentary magazine the 73-year-old
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1:11.3	a green walled our senior editor hello a hello John and no arosman our
1:15.7	associate editor hello Noah hi John and Sorobamari our senior writer hello
1:20.3	Sorob hi John okay trade go what what are we talking about so basically
1:26.1	or we're gonna have a trade war we're not gonna have a trade war Trump wants
1:29.7	a trade war he wants a 25% tariff on steel at 10% tariff on a aluminum
1:35.6	apparently he can declare this unilaterally and under at night and they're
1:39.3	a little used 1962 law allowing him to claim that there is a national security
1:45.4	interest in having a fun having an extremely well-functioning steel and a
1:50.4	aluminum industry as it happens we have a perfectly well-functioning steel and
1:54.6	aluminum industry in this country it's just employees a lot fewer people than
1:58.4	it did 60 years ago so that's where we are a lot of Republicans are pushing
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