Politico: THE PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW: MPAA CEO Charles Rivkin

“I can’t speak to the president’s trade position but I can tell [you] that we as a country are five percent of the world’s population and we have a $19 trillion economy so the idea of being against trade is of course silly because you can’t support a $19 trillion economy if you’re not selling your product elsewhere and the key to selling your product elsewhere is lowering barriers to trade and opening markets. That’s one of the things that I’m doing in this job is identifying barriers that prevent one of America’s greatest exports, media from reaching these countries and make it safe for our product.”

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