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Donald Trump: “On April 2, reciprocal tariffs kick in and whatever they…”

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

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President Trump Full Speech to Joint Session of Congress

Published | Video Starts at 39:58

That's what that's not just one day was cost us a lot of money. But we're going to do it in April. I'm a very superstitious person. On April 2, reciprocal tariffs kick in and whatever they tariff us other countries, we will tariff them. That's reciprocal back and forth. Whatever they tax us, we will tax them. If they do non monetary tax to keep us out of their market, then we will do non monetary barriers to keep them out of our market. (39:58–40:09)

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Announces reciprocal tariffs starting April 2.

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