What did Donald Trump claim about the economy on 2 Mar 2019?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
Then, in 1913, they ended tariffs, okay? They ended tariffs.
Tariffs did not end in 1913. That year's tariff law cut rates but kept duties on a long list of imports.
The Tariff Act of October 3, 1913 is titled 'An Act To reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes.' It orders that 'there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles when imported from any foreign country' the rates in its dutiable list, which opens with chemicals, including 'all other acids and acid anhydrides not specially provided for in this section, 15 per centum ad valorem' (38 Stat. 114, U.S. Statutes at Large, 63rd Congress, ch. 16).
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- Speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
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