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Donald Trump: “Vietnam charges us 90%. We're going to charge them 46%.”

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

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President Trump's Liberation Day Speech on Economic Independence and Reciprocal Tariffs

Published | Video Starts at 07:00

39%. We're going to charge them 20%. So we're charging them essentially half. Vietnam, great negotiators, great people. They like me, I like them. The problem is they charge Vietnam charges us 90%. We're going to charge them 46%. Tariff Taiwan, where they make. They took all of our computer chips and semiconductors. We used to be the king, right? We were everything. We had all of it. (07:00–21:16)

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Asserts that the U.S. will impose a 46% tariff on Vietnam, which charges the U.S. 90%.

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