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World's Biggest Debt Market Faces Huge Test From Trump
Treasuries are the U.S.'s top export, and foreign demand is slipping.
His talk on trade only goes one direction.
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President Donald Trump is a man obsessed by imports, and untroubled by exports.
Since he first hit the campaign trail, Trump has been squarely focused on boosting domestic production by limiting cheap imports from places like China and Mexico and replacing them with homegrown offerings. Much more rarely has he talked about selling those homegrown offerings -- be they Ford Explorers or Boeing 747s -- to the rest of the world.