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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
Is it any wonder that trump's trade policies are goofy when you have a senior trade advisor that would say something as stupid as that?

https://thehill.com/homenews/a...-by-mexican-cartels/

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Originally posted by Tumbleweed:
And that’s how an autocrat sidesteps his own elected government…
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With the former, as it applies to Canada, the amount of fentanyl seized at the border is miniscule, making up just 0.2 percent of all border fentanyl seizures.

Trump knows he has to set out some justification—one that rises to the level of a “national emergency”—in order to increase tariffs so suddenly and harshly on friendly states such as Canada and Mexico. Otherwise, the tariffs don’t fit within the power delegated to him by Congress.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the opening salvo of tariffs, announced in February before being suspended for 30 days, led with a claim of a “national emergency” under the IEEPA:

ADDRESSING AN EMERGENCY SITUATION: The extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, constitutes a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

The order goes on to say that the tariffs will remain in place “[u]ntil the crisis is eliminated.” In other words, Trump is going to continue to insist that we’re still in a crisis of fentanyl overdoses due to lax border security, even from the few pounds coming over the Canadian border, in order to maintain his legal authority to levy the tariffs.

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Originally posted by Tumbleweed:
And that’s how an autocrat sidesteps his own elected government…
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With the former, as it applies to Canada, the amount of fentanyl seized at the border is miniscule, making up just 0.2 percent of all border fentanyl seizures.

Trump knows he has to set out some justification—one that rises to the level of a “national emergency”—in order to increase tariffs so suddenly and harshly on friendly states such as Canada and Mexico. Otherwise, the tariffs don’t fit within the power delegated to him by Congress.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the opening salvo of tariffs, announced in February before being suspended for 30 days, led with a claim of a “national emergency” under the IEEPA:

ADDRESSING AN EMERGENCY SITUATION: The extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, constitutes a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

The order goes on to say that the tariffs will remain in place “[u]ntil the crisis is eliminated.” In other words, Trump is going to continue to insist that we’re still in a crisis of fentanyl overdoses due to lax border security, even from the few pounds coming over the Canadian border, in order to maintain his legal authority to levy the tariffs.

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Originally posted by LHeym500:
Canada just banned US pork imports.