Second of all, all the tariffs that were imposed, some of them are in place to protect domestic supply chains. Some of them are in place for leverage. So In early September, the president announced that he was going to take the tariffs off of coffee and bananas. and other things. And, and then once we had the deals with the kind of countries that send us coffee and bananas, Ecuador, Vietnam, Indonesia, et cetera, then we had used that leverage and we removed it. (04:06–04:11)
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Asserts that the president announced the removal of tariffs on coffee and bananas in early September.
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