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Classic book, an immediate classic in September of 1999.

Catherine Manns is the trade deficit sustainable.

Change the dialogue on international economics and trade.

Dr. Mann joins us now from our studios in Washington.

She is the chief economist for the OECD in Paris.

Catherine, it seems like we've come so far from your classic book.

Help us now with the border text. Peter Navarro suggests it can work for

America, Noyo Rubini with a spirited defense of not doing the border tax, which should it be?

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