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Donald Trump: “If for some reason you say you're building and you don't…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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But if you've made a commitment to build, or if you're in the process of building, as many are, there is no tariff. Okay? If for some reason you say you're building and you don't build, then we go back and get. We add it up, it accumulates, and we charge you at a later date, you have to pay, and that's a guarantee. So that's a big statement. And I think the chip companies are all coming back home. They're all coming back. You know, we started with intel, and gradually, intel was just taken over the. (15:03–15:17)

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Asserts that companies falsely claiming to build in the U.S. will be charged tariffs retroactively.

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