President Trump Asked If Any Countries Will Get A Break From Tariffs On April 2

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President Trump was asked about reciprocal tariffs that he plans to implement on April 2nd.

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00:00Do you have any questions, please?

00:02Yeah, please.

00:03The Press The size of the investment, partly because

00:07of tariffs.

00:08On April 2nd, the reciprocal tariffs will go

00:10into effect.

00:10Is it truly reciprocal?

00:12Are there some countries that might get a break or

00:14some sectors that might get a break?

00:15The President Well, I may give a lot of countries

00:17breaks, but it's reciprocal.

00:19But we might be even nicer than that.

00:22You know, we've been very nice to a lot of countries

00:24for a long time.

00:25But I call it Liberation Day.

00:28April 2nd is Liberation Day.

00:30But today, as you know, we did something with

00:32respect to Venezuela.

00:33You heard about that.

00:35And that will be quite important.

00:37We'll be announcing some additional tariffs over

00:40the next few days having to do with automobiles,

00:44cars, and having also to do a little bit with

00:46lumber down the road.

00:48Lumber and chips are going to get all those chip

00:52companies coming back.

00:53They're already coming back without even doing

00:55it.

00:56So it's it's been very good.

00:57But we'll be announcing some others.

00:59But for the most part, April 2nd will be a big

01:01day.

01:02That'll be Reciprocal Day.

01:03And we'll be bringing some of the money back

01:06that's been taken from us.

01:08Let's be nice by using the word taken.

01:10I don't want to use a stronger word because

01:12these guys are professional politicians

01:14and they don't like to hear those words.

01:16I refuse to use the word stolen from us.

01:19But that's a mutually bring down tariffs.

01:22Are you seeing that happen?

01:24Well, European Union lowered their tariffs to

01:26two and a half percent.

01:27We were only a two and a half percent for cars,

01:29which is very low.

01:31And as you probably heard, that European Union

01:34lowered their number from much higher than that.

01:36Many, many times are surprised to two and a

01:39half percent.

01:40So that was good.

01:41But I don't I don't know that I expect that.

01:45I it's up to them.

01:46But we have reciprocal tariffs.

President Trump Asked If Any Countries Will Get A Break From Tariffs On April 2

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