President Donald Trump said he was enacting steel and aluminum tariffs Thursday, capping off a week’s worth of controversy over his plans to impose the new trade penalties.
JUST IN: President Trump signs orders for 25% tariffs on steel and 10% tariffs on aluminum. pic.twitter.com/zEp77yqMdF— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 8, 2018
“Today I’m defending America’s national security by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel,” the president said in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, flanked by steel and aluminum workers. “…Steel is steel. You don’t have steel, you don’t have a country.”
The tariffs — 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum — will take effect Mar. 23, a senior administration official told reporters by phone Thursday afternoon.
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