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President Donald Trump participates in a tour of an advanced manufacturing lab with Ivanka Trump, right, and Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, second from left, at Northeast Iowa Community College, Thursday, July 26, 2018, in Peosta, Iowa.
The Trump administration has prepared to place import tariffs on all Chinese products entering the country. In addition to a $200 billion round of duties expected to be announced soon, Trump on Friday said an additional $267 billion could subsequently be targeted "on short notice."
Hundreds of company and industry representatives testified before trade officials in Washington last month about how the next round of duties could affect them.
The hearings lasted more than 45 hours, with witnesses allowed to speak for five minutes each. A large number of individuals came from the manufacturing industry. Here's what some of them had to say, drawn from US Trade Representative transcripts.