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It would be very hard to contain the damage in that situation. you are seeing manufacturing companies complain about the fact that their input prices have gone up from the earlier steel and aluminum tariffs as well as things like semiconductors and other intermediate goods they use to create products and jobs as well in the united states. the national association of manufacturers came out with a statement saying, yay for the jobs report, but boo for the trade war. >> christine, when it comes to what we're talking about here, we heard a little from katherine, the chinese targets are machinery, ...

That need to be addressed. but the right way to address them is having the rest of the world having our back, rather than driving the rest of the world to be on china's side, which makes it so much easier for china to resist us. we have no evidence that this strategy as yet is going to produce results. what we know is that the tariffs that china is likely to impose will cost jobs of people who would otherwise have been involved in exporting to china. and probably even more important, what we know is that we're shooting ourselves in the foot because what china sells are inputs to american produ...