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Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden

American author and journalist

May 15, 2026

7:01
So from your perspective and from what you do, w- what is a tariff and h- how does it affect what you do? How does it affect for anybody who's, you know, ordering from out of the country? W- what is that to you?
7:19
Well, there's different types of tariffs.
7:20
So I mean, you've got 301 tariffs, which is gonna be something where they've actually-- the ITC has actually made a decision.
7:27
So the International Trade Commission's actually made a decision that that country is doing something that gives them a benefit.
7:34
So in China's case, that was the, what happened with the courts.
7:37
They're actually subsidizing the product by using government money and goods to lower the cost of the raw material to bring to the United States, which jeopardizes jobs in the United States.
7:47
So that's, that's what the purpose of tariffs is for.

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15:10
And so being able to bring in those materials, I mean, having to outsource a little bit of everything for one little thing, how can that affect project timelines? Um, I, I mean, what are some of those, those shipping rates? Are tariffs extending those timelines? Are they shortening the timelines? What are they doing?

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