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Howard Lutnick: “We need to produce things in America. We need to produce…”

Featuring: Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce | National

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US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick speaks at the World Economic Forum

Published | Video Starts at 40:53

And that would be true of Britain and that would be true of Europe, that all of this has moved to Asia. Right, where they make everything and we just buy it. And that has got to end. We need to produce things in America. We need to produce things and we encourage the UK to do the same. Right? And you agree, it's not as if we disagree. So that's the history and sovereignty for America says we need to have our own steel, we need to have aluminum, we can have it with great allies. (40:53–41:01)

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Asserts the need for domestic production in the U.S. and encourages the UK to do the same.

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