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“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, first of all, we need to ask ourselves, what does H.R. 4318 do, the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act? It is going to make it easier for American manufacturers to compete globally. As my friend, Mr. Pascrell, has just said to you, for so many years, we have put ourselves at the wrong end of the way things should work. We add tariffs, we add taxes on the people who manufacture. This is a commonsense bill. In every measurable way, our country and our people are the beneficiaries of this bill. Now, through this legislation, Congress will be able to reduce or totally suspend the tariffs, which are essentially a tax. At the end of the day, by giving tariff relief to U.S. businesses, this will reduce manufacturing costs, therefore, making products more competitive for U.S. consumers. It is a win-win for America's consumers and for American workers. For decades, Congress has passed this type of legislation to boost the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing by lowering the cost of imported goods without unnecessarily harming U.S.-based companies that produce competing products. Now, let me just take, for example, a company back in Pennsylvania, Lasko Products. Mr. Pascrell and I sat in a hearing and we listened to these folks as they talked about what makes them competitive, what takes them off the shelf where they can't compete, and too often it was their own country that was making it difficult.…”