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Remember, this is the average. some items in your trolley will have gone up items in your trolley will have gone up even more sharply over the past 12 months. first one up. in may last year, a dozen eggs would have set you back on average £2.53. last month, it was £3.26, up 29% in a year. how about a two pint bottle of semi skimmed milk? last year, £1.01. this year, up 28% to £1.29. and lastly, cheddar cheese, which per kilo last year cost £6.99. this year that is up to £9.65 a kilo, up a staggering 38%. so can something be done to stop these prices rising so rapidly? there's concern amo...

House tax writers want to double the $1.01 federal excise tax on a pack of cigarettes with similar hikes on tobacco taxes. it would tax e-cigarettes for the first time. would that go against the president's pledge not to raise taxes on any household earning less than $400,000 a year? and if they do put a tax on tobacco products, would nonsmokers care? >> yeah, i don't know, on the first one. the issues that are -- taxes that are about health, there's always been kind of a gray area of were we thinking about income taxes or if something is totally voluntary like that, should that be counted. it...

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Tariff stuff is not working. it's causing more damage than it's solving. i think -- s >> you think he does realize that? >> he takes a while to realize things. in combination with the nafta 1.01 deal, i think he's begun to understand this is no way to run a railroad. you were chief of staff, i want to read how politico summarized. he would use the act of withdrawing from nafta as a cudegel to get congress to pass a new deal. it seems the new agreement is not popular enough to be approved on its merits. he has to use the threat of

Ipr, intellectual property rights protection. but compared to what was going on a week ago, we could see our stock market tanking largely over this china issue, i think it's a step in the right direction as was the mexico/canada nafta 1.01 or whatever they want to call it. >> janice, let me ask you about another component of this announcement which is that china has agreed to designate fentanyl, a controlled substance. that is something very important for the united states. they've been pushing hard for it given the problems that we've had here with opioid addiction. explain to us the signific...