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Donald Trump: “I was tariffing and taxing China and other countries at a…”

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Donald Trump delivers speech at rally in Texas

Published | Video Starts at 36:54

And we were setting records. Not only were we building and doing it, we were setting records at doing manufacturing jobs. Because I was tariffing and taxing China and other countries at a level that made it more competitive for companies like this to build here. than it was to build over in China to deliver here, where we would actually build cars in China. And I put a big tax on those cars coming in and stopped it. (36:54–37:04)

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Asserts that tariffs and taxes on China and other countries made it more competitive for companies to build in the U.S.

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