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Temporary tariffs sound manageable. They come with timelines, limits, and the comforting suggestion that, at some point, they will go away and things will return to normal. In practice, that is not how tariffs behave. With very few exceptions, tariffs are not temporary. The structure changes. The legal authority shifts. The justification evolves. But the […]
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When the Supreme Court shut down the use of IEEPA as a tariff tool, it did not remove tariffs from the policy landscape. It removed one of the more convenient ways to impose them quickly and broadly. The response was immediate. Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 stepped in. If that felt fast,
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Section 338 Is Not the Lever You Think It Is Part Three of Our Three-part Article on Section 338 In December 2025, we published “Section 338 and the Ghost of Smoot-Hawley,” the first of our three-part series on Section 338. In February, 2026 we published “338 and The Vessel Clause: A Tariff You Can Drive
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