But they were paying nothing. They make beautiful watches, great watches, Rolex, all of them. They were paying nothing to the United States when they sent their product in. And We had a $41 billion deficit [with Switzerland]. 41 billion with this beautiful place. Flew over it. Isn't it nice? So I said, let's put a 30% tariff on them so that we get back some of it, not all of it at all. (56:11–56:16)
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