industries: But so far, there's been relatively little progress toward his goal of revitalizing struggling American industries and cutting US dependence on the rest of the world's products, according to CNN. Despite Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum as well as billions in consumer goods from China, Americans are importing more than they're selling abroad. Trump and Xi could meet this month to end the US-China trade war He's clearly taken care of the first part by upending a number of trade relationships the United States has around the world. The trade deficit has widened by more than 100 billion since Trump took office and hit a 10-year high in 2018, according to data released by the Census Bureau on Wednesday. That's an impossible thing to fix with aggressive trade policy. The administration made it seem like a quick tweak in some trade agreements would bring back the manufacturing workforce, but the problems have to do with technological change, said Phil Levy, a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs who served as a senior economist for trade under President George W. Bush.
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