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Chuck Edwards: “Tariffs are taxes. I mean, they are taxes on international trade.”

On the recordMay 31, 2012
Tariffs are taxes. I mean, they are taxes on international trade.
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Chuck Edwards
Republican · North Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Edwards explains that tariffs function as taxes on trade.

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