WATCH: Trump promises to revive North Carolina furniture industry ‘like magic’

Economy

President Donald Trump said Tuesday tariffs are coming on furniture imports to help revitalize the domestic industry in North Carolina and South Carolina.

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He said the state has the "most talented woodworkers that you've ever seen" but that the business was "stolen from us by others, not only China."

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Trump didn't say when he would impose the tariffs but he encouraged woodworkers in those states to start teaching their children and grandchildren the art of furniture-making.

"Some of those incredible artists that I knew as young people, they're older people now," Trump said at the Cabinet meeting. "But they still have the talent and they have time left, but they're going to be teaching their sons and their daughters and their grandchildren and it's going to be a beautiful thing to see. It's going to happen like magic."

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