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Q&A: Sen. Portman talks Section 232 legislation, China and WTO reform

November 11, 2019 at 4:21 PM
“I think a Donald Trump Republican party is a party of expanded trade,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) said last week in a wide-ranging interview. The former U.S. Trade Representative, who sits on the Senate Finance Committee, said free trade was “kind of a loaded term.” “And so is fair trade. I use the word balanced trade,” he told Inside U.S. Trade’s Anshu Siripurapu in a Nov. 7 interview. “I’m a person who believes in trade strongly,” Portman added. “I...


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