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Larry Kudlow is the director of the National Economic Council. He is speaking Thursday to the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. The topic is economic and trade policy.

Kudlow is speaking as the White House is locked in a tariff battle with China that has seen the administration impose tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports and has threatened to put levies on $300 billion more. President Donald Trump has been optimistic that a deal will get done but has pledged to keep the tariffs in place until then.

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