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Barack Obama on tariffs: blanket tariffs mean "everybody has to come to you for favor"

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Former President Barack Obama, in conversation with Heather Cox Richardson at The Connecticut Forum, says his administration occasionally used tariffs to counter China's bad practices, "but that's not what's going on now." He asks whether Vietnam might win lower tariffs if "maybe we approved a golf course for a certain business."

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President Barack Obama
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other - The Connecticut Forum conversation with Heather Cox Richardson, Hartford
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China in particular, as it came up, started taking advantage of the rules. And my administration applied tariffs as well, occasionally, to counteract these bad practices. But that's not what's going on now. What's going on now is that tariffs means everybody has to come to you for favor. You apply blanket tariffs around the world, now suddenly, Vietnam has got to negotiate tariffs and oh, would it be helpful in terms of lowering tariffs if maybe we approved a golf course for a certain business? Let's discuss this. All right. Let's discuss that. So

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