Because it didn't start with a piece of legislation that was passed by Congress a couple of weeks ago. It started when Donald J. Trump took office and said, you know, If you were to build something in Mexico or China or some other foreign country, dump it in the United States of America, you are going to pay a big fat pen, you're going to pay a tariff. before you dump these products in our country. And you know what that did? That put the entire world on notice that America was back. (02:34–02:46)
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Asserts that tariffs were imposed on foreign-made goods entering the U.S.
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