You know, when you put a tariff on them, they sell it, like with steel. They were dumping tremendous amounts of steel into our country. During my term, I saved every steel mill, every. We only have steel mills because of what I did. I put a high tariff on them. 25 and then 50%. And it stopped. It stopped. They were dumping so much steel, we would have lost every single steel mill. (44:50–44:55)
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Asserts that his actions saved every U.S. steel mill.
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