Last week saw a flurry of new activity around section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. That is the statute that authorizes the President (following an investigation by the Commerce Department) ...
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will increase the global 10 percent tariff he announced one day ago to 15 percent. Trump imposed global tariffs on countries in reaction to the US Supreme ...
The acceleration of the decision is likely due to increasing trade tensions with China over rare earth metals. Image: Rinson Chory, via Unsplash. Details of tariffs on US imports of polysilicon ...
The Trump Administration missed an important deadline in its investigation of automobile and automobile-part imports, which should be cause for concern in Congress. As a result, the President may have ...
In an earlier Geo-Graphics blog post, I argued that the soaring use of “national security” notifications to justify new import barriers at the WTO was a sign that the multilateral trading system was ...
US President Donald Trump is actively considering three key tariff mechanisms -- Section 122, Section 301, and Section 232 -- in response to the Supreme Court’s recent decision that declared his use ...
Section 232 tariffs aim to protect U.S. national security. Created by the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Section 232 empowers the president to charge duties pending the results of a Department of ...