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Emanuel Cleaver: “Do you think that these trade wars have ever worked? Discuss Smoot-Hawley, 1930. Did that work?”

On the recordJuly 11, 2018
Do you think that these trade wars have ever worked? Discuss Smoot-Hawley, 1930. Did that work?
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Cleaver questions the effectiveness of trade wars by referencing historical events.

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