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Donald Trump: “If you build Your product here, you pay no tariff. If you…”

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That's the largest, I think it's going to be the largest plant in the world, car plant. And they're moving into the United States. And again they're doing that to avoid paying the tariff because If you build Your product here, you pay no tariff. If you don't, you pay a 25% tariff, depending 35%, sometimes, sometimes 100%, 200% depending on what the product is. As an example, we're doing great on steel because we charge tariffs. So now all of a sudden, the steel industry, which was absolutely dead a few years ago, I revived it in my first term pretty good. (16:41–16:53)

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Asserts that tariffs range from 25% to 200% depending on the product if not built in the U.S.

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