ask arcelor mittal, ask nucore, they have all seen the tricks china uses to work around our duty laws. look at the recent report on china's intellectual property theft, he found that china was stealing about 50 billion dollars of intellectual property from the u.s. every single year, the evidence is clear, china is determined -- i understand china -- i don't even particularly fault them because they are acting in their national interests, maybe we should try to do the same thing. because china is determined to gain u.s. market share in technological advances, they will stop at nothing to get it. i agree we should work with our allies in this the administration to a degree has. they have negotiated agreements with south korea, brazil, argentina and australia, some of my colleagues are concerned rightly about canada and mexico being covered by the tariffs. i share that concern, but gutting trade enforcement is not the way to fix that. i work with the administration to reach a solution through negotiations. i encourage my colleagues to do the same. i spoke to ambassador late last night,