Made in America: It's trickier than it sounds
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🗓️ 18 June 2023
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Making things in America may be a catchy political slogan, but it's a lot more complicated |
| 0:12.2 | than it sounds. |
| 0:13.6 | So many things we use every day come from China. |
| 0:16.7 | In 2018, former President Donald Trump launched a trade war with China, eventually slapping |
| 0:21.9 | tariffs on more than $300 billion worth of imports. |
| 0:25.7 | For many years, China has been taking out hundreds of billions of dollars a year and rebuilding |
| 0:31.2 | China. |
| 0:32.2 | It's time that we rebuild our country. |
| 0:34.7 | Two and a half years into the Biden presidency, those taxes are still here. |
| 0:39.6 | To understand why that is, I talked to policymakers, economists, and even went out to a factory |
| 0:45.6 | floor in Minnesota. |
| 0:47.3 | Right now, we're building a five-inch speaker. |
| 0:51.9 | Dan Diggory is the president and CEO of the Minneapolis Speaker Company, known as |
| 0:56.6 | MISCO, for short. |
| 0:58.1 | The company makes all kinds of speakers for subway cars, drive-thrues, even airplanes. |
| 1:07.8 | MISCO was a storefront business, started by Diggory's parents after World War II. |
| 1:15.8 | Four years ago, Diggory moved the company into a spacious new facility that now employs |
| 1:20.7 | nearly a hundred people. |
| 1:21.7 | We're very committed to American manufacturing of loudspeakers. |
| 1:25.6 | So we built this big facility with a big factory floor. |
| 1:28.9 | Diggory takes me out to the factory floor that produces two to three thousand speakers |
| 1:33.3 | a day, but he says they could be making more. |
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