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Demixs

(26 posts)
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 07:32 AM Yesterday

Trump's new tariffs (section 122) may be illegal. Likely to be challenged [View all]

In short, Trump is too dumb to realize that trade deficit isn't the same as balance of payments deficit.

In Section 122, Congress endowed the president with narrow, temporary authority to impose tariffs “to deal with large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits” (emphasis added). What Trump is complaining about — something he insists is a crisis but is not — is the balance of trade, not of payments. The United States does not have an overall balance of payments deficit, much less a large and serious one.


https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trumps-section-122-tariffs-are-illegal/amp/
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