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the fact is that you don't have free trade you know the one thing I'll say about Donald Trump is you may not agree
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with the tariffs but he's been incredibly consistent i stumbled into an interview he did with Larry King in 1987
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and he walked through the entire trade imbalance 40 years ago we don't have free trade right now because if you want
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to go to Japan or if you want to go to Saudi Arabia or various other countries it's virtually impossible for an
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American to do business in those countries the fact is that you don't have free trade we think of it as free
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trade but you right now don't have free trade here's what tariffs do tariffs are
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a level setting mechanism that fixes a historical imbalance what they want is to create the economic incentives to
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reshore as much industry as possible into the United