where we can now cross live to dr jack rasmussen professor of political economy at st mary's college thanks for being with us here on our team international. so. this is just bizarre in some ways president trump has imposed tariffs on up to sixty billion dollars worth of chinese imports which china said caused serious damage to its interests not trying to just retaliated by slapping a twenty five percent tariff on one hundred twenty eight u.s. imports including food pork so who stands to lose more from a trade war does anyone stand to win. well it's not clear that we're really going to have a trade war here when china you know trungpa announced these tariffs but they haven't been implemented yet and if you recall he announced tariffs on steel worldwide and it exempted everybody including europe north korea where now north korea can i mean south korea we're now south korea can import steel to the united states permanently into second largest steel importer to the u.s. so you've got to you've got to watch more closely whether these announcements are actually going to come up with some