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Howard Lutnick: “We set steel and aluminum tariffs.”

Featuring: Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce | National

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Published | Video Starts at 23:24

It's not a level playing field that everybody else does for their own domestic internal economy. But not on every product, but on many. I mean, like, you know, We set steel and aluminum tariffs. You'd say, like, why. Why do you do the whole steel and aluminum thing? You'd say, well, if the Chinese give power, give G I V E their power to the steel producer free. (23:24–23:27)

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Asserts that the U.S. government has imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum.

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