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Trump threats of steep tariffs on key trading partners could hurt everyday Americans

NPR's Rob Schmitz asks North Carolina State University's Rob Handfield how President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China could affect consumer costs in the U.S.

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Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.