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Howard Lutnick: “The backbone of our tariff agenda is also these, what we'll…”

Featuring: Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce | National

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It's perfectly sensible that the President, United States should design our foreign policy. How could he not? Right. That would be ludicrous for him not to be able to do it. But The backbone of our tariff agenda is also these, what we'll call sectoral tariffs, you know, autos. Right. Things like semiconductors, those kind of things where we can bring manufacturing back to America. So that's part of the joy of being the Commerce Secretary. (21:21–21:30)

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Asserts that sectoral tariffs, including on autos, are central to the tariff agenda.

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