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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: We are so delighted to have back with us. Mark Bitzer.

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Speaker 2: He's the CEO of Rolpool Corporation. He joins us from

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Speaker 2: Michigan Market. It is great to have you here with

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Speaker 2: Tim and myself.

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Speaker 3: How are you I'm doing well well, Thanks for having

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Speaker 3: me back.

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Speaker 2: How is the environment?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: You know, I mean, obviously we saw in our earnings

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Speaker 3: release where despite everything else going.

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Speaker 4: On, we're pretty pleased with our Q one.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we're basically I would consider our business largely

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Speaker 3: on track. We hit the EPs pretty much in line

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Speaker 3: with consensus. On organic revenues, we're up two percent almost

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Speaker 3: six percent margin, which puts us on track to our

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Speaker 3: folio guidance, and we're reconfirming guidance. So I mean, obviously

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Speaker 3: it's not all euphoric, but give them everything else going on,

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Speaker 3: I think we should feel pretty good about being on

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Speaker 3: track in the current environment.

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Speaker 1: How would you describe the US consumer right now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously it's been a lot of all

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Speaker 3: utility also a consumer side, and I think, if you

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Speaker 3: want to say so, we're probably a little bit cannery

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Speaker 3: and the cold mine when it comes to consumer confidence

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Speaker 3: and the reason why I'm saying this one. You know,

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Speaker 3: every day, you know, many companies have a big order pipeline.

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Speaker 3: Our orders are pretty much seven days, so I see

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Speaker 3: it pretty fast if consumer orders something or not. And

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Speaker 3: we saw actually a very healthy consumer sentiment following the

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Speaker 3: election pretty much through January mid February, and then we

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Speaker 3: saw a clear deteriation of consumer confidence in particular particular

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Speaker 3: on my discretionary side of demand. Now I think that

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Speaker 3: continued to also in Q two. So we see right

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Speaker 3: now the consumer probably lacks confidence about the financial future

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Speaker 3: and holding back discretionary purchases.

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Speaker 1: Why does that compare with your where consumers have been

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Speaker 1: during your tenure at Whirlpool, Because we've spoken to you

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Speaker 1: quite a bit over the last few years, throughouts, through downs,

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Speaker 1: through relatively calm periods. How would you describe the consumer

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Speaker 1: right now relative to where the consumer has been during

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Speaker 1: your tenure?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty six years, so don't have enough time to

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Speaker 3: go give you all the ups and But is it.

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Speaker 1: Better than the pat gives it's a great view. Is

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Speaker 1: it better than the financial crisis? Better than the dot

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Speaker 1: com bust? Better than covid?

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Speaker 4: You know, it's it's.

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Speaker 3: How should I put from an economic perspective, it doesn't

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Speaker 3: not from a human perspective. From an economic perspective, I

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Speaker 3: think there's a lot of similarities to what we saw

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Speaker 3: in the early days of COVID. And what I'm saying

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Speaker 3: is one consumers, it just there's a you know, everyday

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Speaker 3: new messages which don't necessarily help consumer confidence. So from

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Speaker 3: a preer consumer confidence perspective, we just want to have

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Speaker 3: stability in the message. I think consumers can deal with

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Speaker 3: good or bad news. It's just the every day changing

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Speaker 3: news and the uncertainty which neither helps business investors or consumers.

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Speaker 3: And I think so the drop wich we've seen kind

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Speaker 3: of in the course of six weeks, yep, that was

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Speaker 3: probably among the biggest jobs I've seen.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully at one point we will also come back up again,

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Speaker 3: but right now, by drop was pretty fast and pretty drastic.

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Speaker 2: So we love talking with you. We got through so

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Speaker 2: many cycles together. And I'm just thinking of those who

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Speaker 2: are watching and listening to Bloomberg Business Week on this Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: I am curious about your supply chain, Like we are

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Speaker 2: all getting a great lesson right in global trade, global

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Speaker 2: supply chains. Tell us about your supply chain and how

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Speaker 2: the US China or just the US TERRORFF trade war

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Speaker 2: is potentially impacting you or making you change it.

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Speaker 3: First all, Carol, I want to give you credit, but

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Speaker 3: it took you two question free to raise the ward teriff.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying. I'm trying to you.

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Speaker 3: Kudos to you, And obviously there's a lot of moving

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Speaker 3: parts of play. Ultimately comes back to we are kind

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Speaker 3: of the only and last American appliance company, and we

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Speaker 3: produce eighty percent of what we sell in the US

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Speaker 3: in US, and of what we produce in US, more

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Speaker 3: So we are a domestic producer. I know a lot

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Speaker 3: of companies talk about reshoring or on showing. We never

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Speaker 3: even what we're all faced with some headwinds in particular components, etc.

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Speaker 3: Ultimately we will be a net winner because we're a

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Speaker 3: other industries. There's capacity. We have enough capacity, enough factories

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Speaker 3: it may take some time, but I think ultimately, and

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Speaker 3: we all don't know what the final final picture for

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Speaker 2: There's a couple of things I wanted to ask you, Like,

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Speaker 2: we just have a headline crossing and there's lots of

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Speaker 2: headlines that are constantly coming at us, and this one

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Speaker 2: is from the ft that the President is going to

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Speaker 2: exempt carmakers from some US tariffs. How do you want

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Speaker 2: to see this trade war play out? Because I'm assuming

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Speaker 2: that some of these tariffs help you domestically.

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Speaker 3: Well, and again I think that probably needs a libit explanation.

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Speaker 3: So Carol, actually, we're not asking for exemptions. We're not

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Speaker 3: asking for tech subsidies or gifts or handouts or whatever

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Speaker 3: there are right now in the the pre existing so

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Speaker 3: called two thirty two and three or one arffs, there

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Speaker 3: are loopholes which hurt US and they structurally benefit Asian

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Speaker 3: producers and the it's put it in simple terms, you know,

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Speaker 3: because of two thirty two terraffs, I pay in US

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Speaker 3: for steel two or three times more than Asia steel,

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Speaker 3: and any component which I can't get them US, like

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Speaker 3: an LED panel, I pay teriffs.

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Speaker 4: So if the same product is produced.

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Speaker 3: In Vietnam or Korea they don't have to pay the tariffs,

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Speaker 3: That difference is big. It's about seventy dollars per product.

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Speaker 3: So put that in retail price, that basically means one

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty dollars different retail price. So all we

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Speaker 3: ask for is just close the loophole. We're all in

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Speaker 3: think it's we all agree it's important. Just close the loophole.

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Speaker 3: That's all we ask for. So we don't ask for

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Speaker 3: special treatment, Just close the loophole. Take the disadvantage away. Again,

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Speaker 3: I'm not looking for an unfair advantage. We're just looking

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Speaker 2: We're talking, of course with Mark Bitzer. He is chief

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Speaker 2: executive officer at Whirlpool Corporation, joining us from Michigan. One

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Speaker 3: You know, and again it's Carol, as you can probably

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Speaker 3: So to say it's sit here and saying I'm staying

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Speaker 3: here for patriotic reason, it's probably not credible. US production

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Speaker 3: proud of our ten strong factors in the US. And

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Speaker 3: proud people who have worked very hard. So I know

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Speaker 3: there's now a lot of jokes about US manufacturing. You

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Speaker 3: workforce which you can have as long as we don't

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Speaker 3: harm ourselves with kind of you know, issues which make

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Speaker 3: So I really, I know some people are hesitating about

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Speaker 3: moving back to US. We have been producing the US

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Speaker 3: one hundred and fourteen years this success.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm curious about since you already produce

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Speaker 1: plus you source a lot of the parts here, you're

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Speaker 1: relatively unaffected by tariffs. Would you say that the tariffs

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Speaker 1: on have been a net benefit for your business.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's again so far, there's more announcements than

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Speaker 3: already action in place. So so far what is in

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Speaker 3: places for two thirty two and the ten percent tariffs?

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Speaker 4: But you know, I go back to and I know

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Speaker 4: there's a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of talk about what the previous Trump administration did, but

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of talk about debate, race prize or not.

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Speaker 3: If you now today look back, these terarifs were put

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Speaker 4: Washer prices today are lower. We earned two or fourteen.

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Speaker 3: So tell me one product category which has low price

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Speaker 4: So from that perspective, but the.

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Speaker 3: Prior Trump administration did actually in our industry worked. It

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Speaker 3: brought new production and the prices did not raise. Now

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Speaker 3: there's always some moving parts as you go through this one,

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Speaker 3: but it worked. Now that may be different in other industries,

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Speaker 3: but I think I know ironestry pretty well. You add

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Speaker 1: Does the risk though of declining US consumer sentiment as

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Speaker 1: about uncertainty moving forward? Does that way to a greater

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Speaker 1: extent than the benefit that you get from tariffs as

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it's a fair question. Of course,

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Speaker 3: you know what I describe on a structural capacity, these

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Speaker 3: are long term effects. I mean, you don't build factories

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Speaker 3: consumer confidence moves within a quarter. So I think even

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Speaker 3: think the long term benefits will clearly output the negative

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Speaker 2: You definitely have a global perspective. I think there's some

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Speaker 2: concerns though that the longer this trade back and forth,

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Speaker 2: term damage. How do you see it?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know it's again I can speak more for

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Speaker 3: my industry. I think ultimately what the current administration is

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Speaker 3: trying to do in our industry, I support, of course,

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Speaker 3: because we're a US producer. I think the most important thing,

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Speaker 3: and that is not only for our innestry. People just

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Speaker 3: want to have predictability. Okay, if you have pretty much

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Speaker 3: every day of changing problem definition, that just makes it

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Speaker 3: hard because you don't plan industrial production. You don't make

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Speaker 3: Everybody will deal with whatever it is if I know

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Speaker 3: this is now, that's a picture and it's going to

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Speaker 3: be stable and people can count on this one. So

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Speaker 3: I think it's more stability and predictability more than anything else,

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Speaker 1: You mentioned that much of the sourcing that you do

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Speaker 1: for the US based production is actually domestic sourcing. Still,

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Speaker 1: a result of what we've seen happening.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's a little bit.

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Speaker 3: And part of that is today our disadvantage because there

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Speaker 3: while anybody producing Thailand Vietnam doesn't have to pay tariffs.

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Speaker 3: particular and electronic side more than anything else, but more

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Speaker 4: I think it will be quickly resolved.

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Speaker 2: All right, I just want to know, have you created

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Speaker 2: a dishwasher that my husband and I don't have to

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Speaker 2: I just want to know, how do you have one

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Speaker 2: Have we gotten there?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Well, if you have a patent, let me know and

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Speaker 3: we can hire you as an engineer. You know, first

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Speaker 3: of all, I pride ourselves we have a best dishorsher

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Speaker 3: Not every day, at least I'm accused of that every day.

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Speaker 2: Hey, listen, one last question. Do we have to be

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Speaker 3: Just real quickly. I mean again, that's why I said,

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Speaker 3: Carol Earl. It feels a little bit economically to step

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Speaker 3: back to earlier days of COVID and whatever else. It's

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Speaker 3: But I think we're living with an uncertain outcome, and

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Speaker 3: that's what our job is to manage towards that.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, when I get that design for that

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Speaker 2: dishwasher that loads and unloads itself, I'll let you know.

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Speaker 2: Mark bitzer b Well, CEO Werepool Corporation. This is Bloomberg