United States: “We will charge them approximately half of what they have been charging us”

In this context, president Donald Trump spoke about the new tariffs, especially for the Asian Giant.

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00:00In this context, President Trump spoke about a new tariff specifically for the ASEAN-EU.

00:05But we will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us.

00:11So the tariffs will be not a full reciprocal.

00:17I could have done that, yes, but it would have been tough for a lot of countries who

00:21didn't want to do that.

00:22I'd like to see the chart, if you have it.

00:24Could you bring it up, Howard?

00:27This is our great Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick.

00:35So if you look at that, China, first row, China, 67 percent.

00:41That's tariffs charged to the USA, including currency manipulation and trade barriers.

00:48So 67 percent, I think you can, for the most part, see it.

00:52Those with good eyes, with bad eyes.

00:54We didn't want to bring — it's very windy out here.

00:57We didn't want to bring out the big charts because it had no chance of standing.

01:00Fortunately, we came armed with a little smaller chart.