Are Trump's trade deals the real deal?

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  NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong.

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  And I'm Darian Woods.

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  We have been hearing so much talk from officials in the Trump administration about deal-making,

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  like from trade advisor Peter Navarro.

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  We're going to run 90 deals in 90 days.

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  Or Kevin Hassett, another economic advisor.

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  Everybody has seen awesome deals that are on the table.

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  Last week,

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  we were in the Middle East cutting trillions of dollars of deals with our Middle Eastern friends.

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  Awesome deals, trillions of dollars of deals, 90 deals in 90 days.

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  The Trump administration says the tariffs it's imposed or threatened to impose are bringing foreign governments to the negotiating table.

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  The European Union this week said it's fast-tracking trade talks with the U.S.

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  And the White House has already announced two deals with U.K. and China.

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  So there's been a lot of celebration.

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  But what do these PACs actually involve?

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  And are they really even deals?

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  Today on the show, a former trade negotiator for the U.S. puts these agreements to the test.

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  There's no real training to become a trade negotiator for the U.S. government.

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  learn by doing kind of job.

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