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Donna Demaio: Australian Correspondent on the concerns over Trump's steel and aluminium import tariffs · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: We're off to Australia and good morning Donald tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 1: So Tariff Talk comes to Australia with your Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: to talk to Donald about steel.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, mister Abinizsi, our PM is planning a chat with Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to make that case for fee free, sorry
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  Speaker 2: free and fair trade with America now that we know
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  Speaker 2: that President Trump says he's going to impose his tariffs
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  Speaker 2: on all steel and aluminum imports into the US. Now
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  Speaker 2: this is on top of existing metal duties that we
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  Speaker 2: know of, and he says that that's going to count
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  Speaker 2: for everybody. Everybody's facing this twenty five percent tariff. So
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  Speaker 2: the Albanese government has been preparing for such a decision,
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  Speaker 2: it says, and it's been reported that attempts on how
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  Speaker 2: to secure these tariff exemptions have been developed behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: We know that Richard Miles, who is our Defense Minister,
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  Speaker 2: was in the US on the weekend and he has
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  Speaker 2: been meeting with senior Trump officials, but no word on
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  Speaker 2: that yet. Meantime, the PM says he does have an
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  Speaker 2: upcoming phone call. We're not exactly sure when that is,
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  Speaker 2: but he's going to bring up tariff. So we have
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  Speaker 2: to just wait and see what happens there after that
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  Speaker 2: little chin wag.
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  Speaker 1: All right, just now, you've got some big bushfires in Tasmania.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, many many, in fact, about sixteen blazers are raging
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  Speaker 2: across Tasmania's remote west. But we know that help is
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  Speaker 2: on its way and aircraft operations manager is coming from
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand to help with the fire fighting efforts, so
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  Speaker 2: thank you very much for that. But lightning strikes that
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  Speaker 2: started these bushfires in western Tasmania, it's about a week ago.
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  Speaker 2: They're still raging. There's hundreds of people there trying to
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  Speaker 2: get on top of it, and we know that there's
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  Speaker 2: also specialists from New South Wales and Queensland heading down.
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  Speaker 2: But unfortunately Tazy's going to have some searing heat, some
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  Speaker 2: very very hot weather on its way at least for
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow and Thursday. But thankfully the cold front is due
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  Speaker 2: late Thursday, so hopefully that will help.
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  Speaker 1: And have we offered help.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, someone from New Zealand is coming. An aircraft
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  Speaker 2: operations manager apparently is on their way, which we have
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  Speaker 2: to say, thank you very much for helping us with
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  Speaker 2: our firefighting efforts.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's nothing, it's okay. Thank you, Donna Jamaya. For
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