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Duties of 10 to 12.5% on 60 U.S. trading partners went into effect on Friday, claiming to combat unfair practices related to \u201cforced labor.\u201d But unlike Trump\u2019s earlier global tariffs, the latest batch rests on Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, and it\u2019s considered to be on firmer legal footing.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s after the Supreme Court struck down his \u201cLiberation Day\u201d levies under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, prompting him to apply temporary stopgap tariffs that expired just as the new ones took effect.<\/p>\n

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Since they largely replace import taxes that were in place earlier, the immediate economic impact of the Section 301 tariffs is seen as minimal, but they still set a precedent that future presidents could invoke, according to Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics\u00a0at the Cato Institute.<\/p>\n

In a column in the Dispatch<\/em>, he dismantled the administration\u2019s justifications, saying the tariffs looked predetermined, relied on thin evidence, applied rates far out of proportion to forced labor\u2019s actual trade impact, and offered no off-ramp.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe forced labor action is a clear abuse of the law and a serious departure from past U.S. government practice\u2014even under President Trump,\u201d Lincicome wrote. \u201cBy no reasonable measure can it be considered anything other than a ham-fisted way to reinstall Trump\u2019s tariff wall and protect it from another IEEPA-like defeat in federal court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite all that, courts may still rubber-stamp the new tariffs, unwilling to challenge the administration\u2019s determinations and actions, he added.<\/p>\n

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Congress might not step in either. In fact, even as public opinion on Trump\u2019s tariffs has soured, lawmakers have shown little urgency to roll them back.<\/p>\n

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As a result, Section 301 could be used to tariff \u201cany country, at any rate, and for any reason and duration, as long as it checks the law\u2019s minor procedural boxes,\u201d according to Lincicome.<\/p>\n

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While Section 301 requires an investigation into unfair trade practices before tariffs can be imposed, any administration can simply go through the motions by claiming some form of harm and offering justifications with little merit, he warned.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is precisely the open-ended tariff power grab the courts checked with their IEEPA rulings, just with a little more procedural window-dressing,\u201d Lincicome wrote. \u201cIn such a case, Section 301 would be a broad tariff generator instead of the targeted tool Congress thought it designed, and it\u2019ll surely be used by Trump or any future president who wants to tariff trading partners over carbon emissions, labor standards, AI regulation, or anything else.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, more tariffs are in the works that will add to the overall bill for imports. Oxford Economics estimated the effective U.S. tariff rate will rise to 9.2% from 8.6%, then climb further to 9.6% when new pharmaceutical tariffs take effect later this month.<\/p>\n

The U.S. also has three other investigations pending under Section 301: one on 16 countries relating to excess capacity and manufacturing; another on Vietnam over intellectual property protection; and a probe on Germany regarding underpayment for pharmaceutical innovations.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce in place, Section 301 tariffs can be stacked and adjusted rapidly, creating risk to our baseline tariff assumptions,\u201d Sara Godfrey, associate U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, wrote in a note Friday.<\/p>\n

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