Obsolete tariff statutes serve as the executive's backdoor around judicial trade restrictions.
When federal courts strike down sweeping import surcharges, the administration maintains high tariff barriers by exploiting obscure, century-old trade provisions to re-impose identical duties.
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The administration bypassed standard trade negotiations by reviving an obscure, century-old Great Depression-era statute to unilaterally impose massive tariffs.
The lawsuit details how the administration exploited Section 301 as a backdoor mechanism to bypass prior judicial blocks and resurrect its sweeping global tariff regime.
The states' lawsuit challenges the administration's exploitation of Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 as a backdoor means to resurrect a tariff regime previously ruled illegal by courts.