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Brian Schatz: “They wiped out half of the export market for American…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Published | Video Starts at 01:56

Right now. You then have a separate bailout for American soybean producers totaling close to $50 billion. And why? Because of the tariffs? Because in one fell swoop, They wiped out half of the export market for American soybeans in China. And there's no way you can plug that gap. You can't come up with, like, I don't know what it would be, 112 individual deals to kind of add up to the market buying power of the prc. (01:56–02:01)

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