Made In America? It's Trickier Than It Sounds.

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🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Made in America. It may be a catchy political slogan, but it's a lot more complicated than it sounds. So many things we use everyday come from China. In 2018 - former President Donald Trump launched a trade war with the country, eventually slapping tariffs on more than 300 billion dollars worth of Chinese imports. Two and half years into the Biden presidency – those taxes are still here.

To understand why, NPR's White House correspondent Asma Khalid spoke with policy makers, economists and even went out to a factory floor in Minnesota.

This episode of the podcast originally aired on Consider This from NPR, and was produced by Marc Rivers & Mallory Yu. It was edited by Adam Raney and Roberta Rampton.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.5	I'm Usma Khaled.
0:07.5	I cover the White House.
0:08.9	And today on the show, we're going to bring you some exciting reporting that I've been
0:12.1	working on for a couple of months.
0:14.2	I've been digging into trade policy in the United States.
0:16.9	Y'all probably remember, back in 2018, former president Donald Trump launched a trade war
0:22.6	with China, eventually slapping tariffs on more than $300 billion worth of imports.
0:28.7	Next forward, and we are two and a half years into the Biden presidency, and those tariffs
0:33.6	are still in place.
0:35.3	I wanted to understand why.
0:36.8	It's a story I reported on the podcast, Consider This.
0:40.5	So I interviewed policy makers, economists, and business owners.
0:44.1	Story took me to a factory floor in Minnesota.
0:48.4	Right now we're building a five inch speaker.
0:53.2	Dan Degree is the president and CEO of the Minneapolis Speaker Company, known as
0:57.6	Misco, for short.
0:59.2	The company makes all kinds of speakers for subway cars.
1:02.6	Drive through.
1:03.6	I'm welcome to one this, I'm helping you.
1:07.9	Even airplanes.
1:08.9	The playtime for big off-text passes to our 55 minute.
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