If congress were capable of doing their job they would have done this by now.
Didn’t Trump already win this long ago ?
We shouldn’t be trading with China at all. Not one dollar
[[The U.S. Constitution grants the tariff power to Congress. Although the Supreme Court has held that Congress has wide latitude to delegate tariff authority to the President, Congress is ultimately responsible for determining what tariff authorities the President should have and what limitations those authorities place on presidential discretion.
Congress may consider whether the President’s existing tariff authorities are adequate, inadequate, or overly broad. If Congress believes existing authorities are inadequate or insufficiently specific, it may consider legislation delegating additional authorities to the President. For example, one bill introduced in the 119th Congress would authorize the President to determine whether a foreign country imposes tariff rates or nontariff barriers that are significantly higher than those of the United States as to particular goods and, if so, to impose U.S. tariffs on those goods up to the rate applied by the foreign country.241 Congress could potentially also expand the President’s authority under existing authorities, such as by removing some of the above-described procedural requirements in various tariff statutes.]]
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48435
Fr9m what a lawyer on a news station was saying, basically, If congress doesn’t object, the president is free to impose tariffs, beczuse presidential powers are extraordinary basically, (the word wasnt extraordinary, but something along those lines), but even if congress objects, the president doesn’t have to abide, but doing g so might set up impeachment threat.
The final question here is whether the POTUS has the authority to declare a National Emergency or...
Whether such a declaration must be reviewed and approved by either Congress or the Courts.
We the People have vested such declarations in POTUS until such time the emergency is past.
Suck it!
Manhattan Contrarian ping
If Roberts can play semantics with the Obamacare “tax”, he can do the same with tariffs.
I think the tariffs have generally been negotiated by presidents in “trade deals” that were then submitted and approved by Congress.
I this case Trump is calling the trade situation a national emergency and using a national emergency powers act to set tariffs directly, without Congress.
It will be interesting to see the Trump’s lawyers arguments at SCOTUS.
I think the difficulty will be that while the trade deficit may be a “national security” issue, it has been at a deficit state for decades, and so what will the argument be for how it is now an emergency.
What else would you expect from a bunch of America haters trying to keep American bucks rolling into foreign treasuries?
To remove and balance precocious trade barriers is a great objective. Canada and their barriers to dairy products is one example. To expect to balance trade with a laundry list of countries that don’t need quantities of stuff we make while we want quantities of stuff they do make is unrealistic. Trump has turned trade upside down unnecessarily and unrealistically in many but not all cases.
We have yet to see the negative impact of his actions but they are showing up and will grow. The cost of goods from protected industries can only go up. Fresh vegetables are an example of how costs to us are raised capriciously and suddenly. US producers can’t compete with Mexican costs or they would have already. Tariffs are noting but a tax on someone and that someone is almost always the consumer. Worse than that though, tariffs encourage non-competitive suppliers to raise prices and become even less efficient and enforcing the consumer to pay the price for that.
I hope this across the board, wild and woolly adventure on tariffs is an argument Trump loses in whole but not in part. We do need protection and counter protection but not on a world trade war scale.
It’s looking more like the appeals court gets off on being shot doun by supreme court they keep doing it.