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Maria Cantwell: “If you just take China out of the equation for aerospace…”

Featuring: Maria Cantwell, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Washington

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Discussion with Senator Maria Cantwell and former USTRs, Carla Hills and Susan Schwab

Published | Video Starts at 40:32

I mean, just take aerospace for a second. I mean, we have 150,000 people who work in aerospace, but there's 2 million people in the United States of America. So If you just take China out of the equation for aerospace, that's like, I think we're, you know, it's like 30, probably 30% of the market you're taking away just because all of a sudden we're in a trade war. And now you're affecting the entire supply chain and competitiveness. And the French are saying, oh, well, we might go over there and build. Really? (40:32–40:45)

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Asserts that removing China from the aerospace market would eliminate about 30% of the market due to a trade war.

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