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Edward Markey: “There's a 10% tariff tax already in place right now since…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Senate Debate on Small Business Tariff Exemptions: Edward Markey vs. Bernie Moreno

Published | Video Starts at 03:33

So all across every Main street in our country, these small businesses are getting paralyzed by the Trump actions. Again, we're going to start with this. There's a 10% tariff tax already in place right now since April 2nd on every good coming into our country. So this is a very dangerous place to put the small businesses of our country. And even as the vast majority of small businesses are seeing massive tax tariff induced cost hikes, this administration is offering exemptions. (03:33–03:42)

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Asserts that a 10% tariff has been in place on all imports since April 2nd.

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