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Scott Bessent: “The tariff levels that we've assigned to our trading…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Published | Video Starts at 04:14

And another news outlet said, well, the secretary doesn't match any of the consensus. Well, no one in the consensus included this fill up from trade. And I think on trade what gets the headlines are The tariff levels that we've assigned to our trading partners, whether it's 15% with the EU, 15% with Japan, 19% for Vietnam. But the other thing under President Trump's leadership, with Jameson Greer's encyclopedic knowledge of tariffs that other countries have on us on non tariff trade barriers, we brought down the tariffs on the other side of the ledger. (04:14–04:24)

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