Gretchen Whitmer: “We've got to do a lot of things to make the United States…”

“The US has effectively kept Chinese cars out of this market. Do you think that should continue? Absolutely. I mean, they're already operating on an unlevel playing field. We've got to do a lot of things to make the United States more competitive and to move faster. That includes getting rid of these capricious tariffs. But there's a lot more work that we need to do here. To shore up not just this industry, but manufacturing generally.” (09:08–09:13)

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