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Scott Bessent: “We brought down the tariffs on the other side of the ledger…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 04:35

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. So these countries that had been charging US tariffs, that's those have been taken down to near zero. and then the non tariff trade barriers. So US Exporters are going to have a much better go of it. (04:35–04:46)

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Asserts that tariffs imposed by other countries on the US have been reduced to near zero.

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