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Latest Fact-Checks In Trade

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Donald Trump
stated on April 9, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
On enacting country-by-country tariffs April 9.
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman • April 9, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2025 in an interview with Newsmax:
“We have automobile plants being built at levels we’ve never seen … and they’re going up fast.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 28, 2025
Karoline Leavitt
stated on March 11, 2025 in a White House press briefing:
“Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2025
Kamala Harris
stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention:
Former President Donald Trump “intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax … that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on June 13, 2024 in a post on Facebook:
“Saudi Arabia will stop using the US dollar for oil sales and will not renew the 50-year petro-dollar agreement with the U.S.”
False
By Madison Czopek • June 20, 2024
SFA Fund
stated on December 28, 2023 in a campaign ad:
Gov. Ron DeSantis “called China ‘Florida’s most important trading partner.’”
False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • January 4, 2024
Chris Christie
stated on December 13, 2023 in a town hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire:
Under the Trump administration’s trade deal, “China’s only fulfilled one-third of the promises of agricultural products that they were supposed to buy from our farmers.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on October 13, 2023 in a speech at the First in the Nation summit in Nashua, N.H.:
“95% of over-the-counter pharmaceuticals” in the U.S. come from China.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • October 26, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on July 29, 2023 in a speech:
Says Gov. Ron DeSantis “opposed my China tariffs and he heartlessly opposed” $28 billion for farm relief, which was paid for by China.
False
By Samantha Putterman • August 8, 2023
Ro Khanna
stated on December 12, 2022 in an interview:
The U.S. “trade deficit with China has gone from about $80 billion a year in the 1990s to $400 billion a year.”
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • December 19, 2022
Tim Ryan
stated on September 27, 2022 in a campaign ad:
“I voted with Trump on trade.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 4, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on May 14, 2022 in posts on social media:
The United States can’t import baby formula because of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Mostly False
By Sara Swann • May 24, 2022
Mike Pence
stated on March 7, 2022 in an ad from Advancing American Freedom:
Joe Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone pipeline “dramatically increased Americans’ dependence on Russian oil.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 11, 2022
Glenn Grothman
stated on February 3, 2022 in Twitter:
Says President Joe Biden “is trying to send taxpayer dollars to manufacturers overseas that do not abide by the same (carbon emission) standards we do at home.”
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • March 11, 2022
Mike Gibbons
stated on March 1, 2022 in an ad:
Joe Biden’s sanctions on Russia “are riddled with loopholes and don’t even start for 30 days. They have carve outs for the energy and financial sectors.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 4, 2022
Jake LaTurner
stated on February 25, 2022 in an ad:
The Keystone XL pipeline “would have produced 830,000 barrels of oil per day, more than enough to offset what we import from Russia.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 28, 2022
Stand Up To China
stated on January 20, 2022 in an ad:
Build Back Better “would be a huge payday for Chinese manufacturing” and “would fill our streets with cars made with Chinese parts.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • February 28, 2022
Team PAC
stated on February 7, 2022 in an ad:
Eric Schmitt “sponsored a bill to spend $480 million of your tax dollars” on cargo hub for airlines “owned by China’s Communist Party” and “voted to let China buy up Missouri farmland.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2022
Sean Hannity
stated on December 1, 2021 in a TV segment:
“If you look pre-COVID” under President Donald Trump, “we didn’t import a single barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • December 2, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on October 27, 2021 in an Instagram post:
A video shows “your packages were rerouted and have arrived in the port of Miami” as a result of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Mostly False
By Gabrielle Settles • November 5, 2021
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