… officials and nearly all of them said that they were cooperating and working with us because of the threat of tariffs. I think that's an important thing to point out. This is in part why I introduced HR 6991 was the Fair Trade act of 2026. and that was actually after a roundtable with you and we discussed it. And it would impose additional 15% tariffs on goods from countries from which the United States runs a trade deficit and a 10% on goods from countries where we run a surplus. (01:18–01:25)
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