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Peter Welch: “If you got a certain kind of aluminum, it was subject to the…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Welch Outlines Cost of Trump Tariffs for Vermont on Senate Floor.

Published | Video Starts at 05:37

So there was an enormous opportunity for special treatment to be given. But even then, the complexity of this, like, for instance, one manufacturer was talking about, If you got a certain kind of aluminum, it was subject to the tariff, but if you got an ever so slightly different definition of aluminum, that you wouldn't be subject to the tariff. So you have a whole production process that has been using aluminum A, that would be subject to a tariff, and if you go to aluminum B, if you can find it, it won't be subject to a tariff. (05:37–05:49)

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Asserts that tariff applicability depends on specific definitions of aluminum.

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