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kinsomo on June 15, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese...

> What's with this "rebuild the American manufacturing base" part? The US is already one of the top manufacturers in the world.

Maybe so, but the US's manufacturing currently isn't strong enough to balance its massive trade deficits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

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