Binyamin Appelbaum
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first heard Feb 2026
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Well, I think economically, this ruling is probably less important than the attention it's getting.
On the whole, the general orientation of American trade policy has not changed as a result of this ruling.
President Trump retains significant and, for the most part, less vulnerable powers to impose tariffs.
He clearly intends to continue to do so.
And so economically, I'd say, for the most part, it's the same story that it was the day before the ruling.
Yeah, so Trump struck a number of deals with countries, with the EU and with several countries in Asia, that basically offered a discount off of the AIPA rates for countries that were willing to provide some concessions to the United States.
And the situation now is that, you know, Europe already and probably some of these other Asian countries are going to say, basically, listen, we're no longer getting value from this deal.
Our tariff rates actually rise slightly under this new arrangement, these new tariffs that you've imposed.
And we're no longer willing to give you the concessions that we promised if you're not going to give us the benefits that you promised.
It remains to be seen how disruptive that is.
I mean, it is entirely possible that they're able relatively quickly to arrive at a similar resolution.
It's also possible that this serves as the basis for tearing everything up and some kind of new standoff in which retaliatory tariffs begin to escalate.
But given the incentives on both sides, if I had to bet, I would bet that we end up seeing a reversion to a new set of deals that more or less resembles the ones already in place.
Actually, I want to start on the legal side at the risk of blocking Tim Lee's territory.
Because broadly speaking, the president has two kinds of tariff authority.
He's got the power to impose broad-based tariffs for the short term, and then he has these targeted powers to impose higher, narrowly targeted tariffs, essentially indefinitely.
And it has always been his plan.
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