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President Trump announced across-the-board tariffs on all U.S. imports on Wednesday.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Mark DiPlacido, a policy adviser at the conservative think tank American Compass. He served in the first Trump administration in the office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

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