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BeyondGeography

(40,389 posts) Thu Apr 3, 2025, 08:18 PM Thursday

45 percent of our imports are inputs into American manufacturing

A fun fact from Jared Bernstein just now on MSNBC. The context was Trump tried to use tariffs to grow American manufacturing in his first term and left the sector worse off as a result.

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45 percent of our imports are inputs into American manufacturing (Original Post) BeyondGeography Thursday OP

He doesn't understand why that would be important. Scrivener7 Thursday #1

Scrivener7

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1. He doesn't understand why that would be important.

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Thu Apr 3, 2025, 08:40 PM

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