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Trade showdown

Are businesses paying the price for Trump’s negotiating strategy?

Kai Ryssdal Jun 21, 2018
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Trade showdown

Are businesses paying the price for Trump’s negotiating strategy?

Kai Ryssdal Jun 21, 2018
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That’s what Kansas Senator Pat Roberts said to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross at Wednesday’s Finance Committee hearing. He also asked if Ross would personally call one of his constituents, Mike Bergmeier, who works at a company that makes agricultural equipment in Hutchinson, Kansas. Ross promised to call Bergmeier and he kept that promise. We also gave Bergmeier a call to see what he had to say about steel tariff exemptions in the agriculture industry.

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