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Sherrod Brown: “Farmers were hit with higher prices if they wanted to buy a…”

Featuring: Sherrod Brown, Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Ohio

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In Ohio Country Today with Sherrod Brown

Published | Video Starts at 01:51

Yeah, let's start with the tariffs. A year plus ago, when those tariffs were levied against many countries around the world with no real system to it, with no predictability, and already. So Farmers were hit with higher prices if they wanted to buy a tractor, buy a combine, and when they needed spare parts. I mean, combines and tractors are extraordinarily expensive anyway. When something happened, they needed to buy spare parts, they were seeing 34% and 30, 40% increase there. (01:51–01:59)

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Asserts that tariffs have increased costs for farm equipment and parts.

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