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Donald Trump: “We saved our steel industry. When I imposed large tariffs on…”

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

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Donald Trump holds news conference at Mar-a-Lago

Published | Video Starts at 43:04

Those countries, many of many of those companies will be coming back. They'll be coming back because when they're told that they're going to have to pay a 25% tariff or a 50% or 100%. We saved our steel industry. When I imposed large tariffs on China steel coming in. they were dumping steel here by millions and millions and millions of yards of steel like nobody has ever seen our steel businesses. We're going out of business. (43:04–43:11)

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Asserts that imposing tariffs on Chinese steel saved the U.S. steel industry.

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