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“ … China may target Kentucky bourbon and Wisconsin dairy, creating natural opponents to the tariffs in Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan,” Clark Packard, a trade policy analyst for the R Street Institute, told Bloomberg in November when the Trump Administration weighed solar tariffs. “There is a game element in the way this transpires.”

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