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Vivek Ramaswamy: “If you're another country and you're applying tariffs to us…”

Featuring: Vivek Ramaswamy, Libertarian, Conservative | Former Candidate, President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 44:46

I don't favor that. The other model is to say that okay, we're going to at least have reciprocity, which means same standards both ways. If you're another country and you're applying tariffs to us, and not just tariffs, but maybe you're doing state sponsored subsidies to your businesses, but we don't do them here, so it's an uneven playing field for those businesses, then we're gonna level the playing field. I think that is totally Legitimate. In fact, I think in most cases that makes sense. (44:46–44:59)

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Asserts that the U.S. should level the playing field if other countries apply tariffs or state-sponsored subsidies.

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