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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It shows the administration using an obscure, century-old statutory provision (the Tariff Act of 1930) to threaten massive retaliatory tariffs.
The administration bypassed previous judicial blocks on import duties by immediately utilizing Section 301 as a backdoor to replicate the expired tariffs.
The administration exploited a separate trade provision in a novel way to maintain high tariff barriers that the judiciary had previously invalidated.