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All Fact-checks for Trade

stated on March 8, 2020 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

“Trade agreements like NAFTA and permanent normal trade relations with China, which forced American workers to compete against people making pennies an hour, has resulted in the loss of 160,000 jobs here in Michigan."

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stated on January 16, 2020 in a tweet

"In #WI, over 44,000 jobs depend on trade with Mexico and Canada."

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stated on January 30, 2020 in a tweet

Says the USMCA is the “biggest trade deal ever made.”

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stated on January 14, 2020 in comments at a presidential debate

"The Machinists Union does not (support the USMCA trade deal). And every environmental organization in this country (also) opposes it."

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stated on December 2, 2019 in a tweet

Says President Donald Trump is "waging a trade war against WI farmers -- forcing > 1600 dairy farms to close."

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stated on September 12, 2019 in a Facebook post

Ivanka Trump’s shoe line is made in China but is exempt from tariffs.

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stated on August 13, 2019 in a Facebook post

"U.S. agricultural & food exports are expected to increase more than $2 billion annually under #USMCA"

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stated on August 27, 2019 in an interview

The Amazon rainforest fires are "directly related to trade" tensions between the United States and China.

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stated on August 21, 2019 in remarks at the White House

"Yesterday we had the strongest dollar in the history of our country."

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stated on August 12, 2019 in a CNN interview

It "is estimated that as many as 300,000 auto workers may be out of a job before the end of the year."

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stated on August 18, 2019 in an interview

U.S. tariffs on China are "not hurting anybody" in the United States.

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stated on August 13, 2019 in a speech in Monaca, Pa.

"We were losing all our cases in the World Trade Organization. ... And then I came along. Now we’re winning a lot of cases because they know that they’re not on very solid ground."

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stated on August 13, 2019 in a speech at a chemical plant in Pennsylvania

Says the large trade deficit with Japan stems from them sending "millions of cars," while "we send them wheat," but the deficit is "changing rapidly."

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stated on July 12, 2019 in an interview

U.S. farmers are receiving $16 billion "out of the tariffs that we’ve gotten from China."

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stated on July 12, 2019 in a speech at Derco Aerospace

"Mexico, they took 30% of our automobile business."

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stated on June 1, 2019 in a speech at the California Democratic Party Convention

President Trump’s tariffs are "taking $1.4 billion out of working people’s pockets every month."

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stated on June 4, 2019 in remarks at a business roundtable in London

The United Kingdom is "our largest (trading) partner."

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Anthony Scaramucci

stated on May 11, 2019 in an interview

China’s developing country status in the World Trade Organization "means they can tariff and embargo."

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stated on May 9, 2019 in remarks at the White House

Tariffs are "paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us."

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stated on April 27, 2019 in a rally

"We have been losing to China for many years, $500 billion a year.

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