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Asma Khalid

Biden kept Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports. This is who pays the price

Dan Digre, CEO of MISCO, on the factory floor in St. Paul, Minn. on May 18, 2023. (Andrea Ellen Reed for NPR)

Dan Digre's family has been making loudspeakers in America for decades, growing from a small storefront in Minneapolis to a state-of-the-art factory with nearly 100 employees and customers ranging from airlines to transit to drive-thru restaurants.

But in the past few years, Digre has begun making more speakers in China – the unintended but direct result of a policy that was supposed to deter U.S. reliance on Chinese imports.

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