North Carolina’s Republican senators, Ted Budd and Thom Tillis, are listening to calls to stand for their state’s tobacco farmers to keep duty drawback from being repealed in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“One of the provisions tucked away in the House tax bill is a tax hike that would decimate North Carolina’s tobacco farmers,” Tillis wrote last week on X. “I stand with our hardworking growers, and I’m pushing to get this hidden tax removed from the One Big Beautiful Bill.”
With President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs to rebalance trade globally, duty drawback lets U.S. exporters recover tariffs on imported goods used in products that are later exported.
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