By: Ariana Rokneddini The President of the United States has long-since been delegated by Congress broad powers to impose tariffs and trade sanctions per Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act (1962) and Section 301 of the Trade Act (1974).[1] Section 232 allows the President to set restrictions on the imports of goods if U.S.…

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By: Vienna Chan In March 2018, then-President Donald Trump established U.S. import duties of “25% on steel and 10% on aluminum against most countries,” citing foreign steel and aluminum was a threat to U.S. national security.[1] The former Trump Administration declared that cheap metals “flooding into the United States, particularly from China,” would degrade the…

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