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Dan Digre on the production floor of MISCO, a speaker design and manufacturing company started by his parents after WWII. Tariffs meant to boost American manufacturing that were enacted under former President Donald Trump have actually made it more expensive for Digre's company to make speakers here in America. Andrea Ellen Reed for NPR hide caption
Dan Digre on the production floor of MISCO, a speaker design and manufacturing company started by his parents after WWII. Tariffs meant to boost American manufacturing that were enacted under former President Donald Trump have actually made it more expensive for Digre's company to make speakers here in America.
Andrea Ellen Reed for NPRMade in America. It may be a catchy political slogan, but it's a lot more complicated than it sounds.
So many things we use everyday come from China.
In 2018 - former President Donald Trump launched a trade war with the country, eventually slapping tariffs on more than 300 billion dollars worth of Chinese imports.
Two and half years into the Biden presidency – those taxes are still here. To understand why, NPR's White House correspondent Asma Khalid spoke with policy makers, economists and even went out to a factory floor in Minnesota.
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