Binyamin Appelbaum
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first heard Feb 2026
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to roll this out in two phases, to use his broad-based authority as the starting point while his administration was pursuing laying the groundwork through investigations for imposing long-term tariffs in areas of the economy that he regards as particularly strategic or important,
And I think it's really important to understand something about that strategy, which is that there is very little question that there are countries that have violated the terms of the standard as it exists in American law.
In other words, there are clearly countries that have taken advantage of domestic subsidies and other unfair trade practices
to gain an advantage over the United States in areas like the production of steel and aluminum, and areas like the production of solar panels or electric cars, all of these areas.
It's clear that other countries have used trade strategies that violate the letter of U.S.
law.
We have for a very long time taken a benign view of those activities and regarded them as, in the aggregate, economically advantageous for us, for everyone.
Right.
Yeah.
The basic idea that prevailed until essentially the first Trump administration in global trade was that trade was good and more trade was better.
And that if countries were able to demonstrate that they could produce stuff cheaper than we could, then we should buy that stuff from them and we would get cheaper stuff and also be able to devote our own economic efforts to making the stuff that we were good at making.
which was increasingly not physical things, but movies and financial services and other things like that.
So if you think that that's not right, it's not that hard to make a legal case that it has to stop.
And so anyone who's counting on the courts to stand in the way of Trump implementing that agenda probably should take a little time to think about the likelihood of that because, you know, he probably has the legal authority to do it.
The question has always been not does he have the legal authority, but should he exercise it?
And he seems awfully determined to do so.
It definitely ties his hands.
I mean, Emily talked about what I think of as the largest consequence of this ruling, which is that it's a victory for the rule of law.
And frankly, I was sort of interested to see whether this happened.
But over the weekend, Trump signed an executive order repealing those AIPA tariffs.
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