i think they are highly incentivized to get this phase one deal done so they can just focus on what they are going to do to try to create some normalcy back with the situation in hong kong. neil, can i neil: go ahead. i just would love to jump in here because there is a misconception out there and i will admit i even didn t understand it until i did the homework as an economist. the impact of the import tariffs that we have on china, which aren t even the totality of them has been insignificant on inflation. it has had an impact on corporate planning of capital expenditures, which we saw in the investment numbers and quarre gawr quarter. numbers. import numbers have been falling. dollar has risen. not everything we consume in the united states is imported and not everything imported comes from china. neil: american distributers have absorbed a
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