VICE News travels across the United States to gauge the real-world effects of Trump-era tariffs and trade policy, talking to the people directly affected rather than just economists and politicians. Steelworkers, farmers, and factory owners describe how new tariffs on imports like steel and soybeans have reshaped their businesses, some benefiting from protection against foreign competition and others losing export markets to retaliatory tariffs from China and other trading partners. The film moves between manufacturing towns and agricultural regions, letting workers and owners explain in their own words whether the trade war has helped or hurt them, and it does not settle on a single verdict. Interviews with industry representatives and economists provide context on how tariffs ripple through supply chains, while footage of factory floors and farmland grounds the policy debate in specific jobs and specific harvests. The result is a ground-level account of an economic fight usually discussed only in terms of national statistics.