With a backdrop of activity at the , San Diego lawmakers and business leaders gathered at Cesar Chavez Park Pier Wednesday to speak out against President Trump’s tariffs.

“Tariffs are an additional tax paid by importers and consumers for products manufactured abroad. The higher the tariff, the higher the tax, and the more money Americans pay,” said .

Behind him stood several people holding signs saying, “Trump’s tariffs will cost the average San Diego household nearly $2,400 a year — According to the nonpartisan Yale .”

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President Trump talked tariffs in the presidential campaign, and by April, he had started talking numbers. Since then, they’ve been a moving target; on and off with plenty of pauses and delays.

But as of Aug. 1, tariffs went into effect on many o

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