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Ron Johnson: “Our largest supplier, foreign supplier steel, is Canada.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

Johnson Discusses Trade Concerns on CNN

Published March 8, 2018 | Video Starts at 03:24

Do you believe that threshold is met? I don't believe so. The figures I've seen, the Defense department uses about 3% of American produced steel. Our largest supplier, foreign supplier steel, is Canada. I'm pretty confident that Canada is a very solid ally of ours, a friend of America. So I don't believe it really meets that national security threshold at all. (03:24–03:28)

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Asserts that Canada is the largest foreign supplier of steel to the U.S.

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