Source: Independent Institute
by Tarnell Brown
“Trump’s latest tariff gambits manage to defy economic logic, statutory limits, and constitutional structure all at once, and that makes them unusually useful as case studies in how not to govern trade. His maneuvers under IEEPA to suspend the de minimis exemption, and under Section 122 of the Trade Act to float a blanket 10 percent tariff on the world, are not just bad policies; they are abuses of delegated power that strip away the very constraints a liberal trading order depends on. They weaponize emergency statutes and obscure balance‑of‑payments language to deliver short‑run political optics while shoving the real costs — economic, legal, and institutional — onto a temporally distant and politically voiceless set of future losers.” (02/23/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/02/23/tariffs-constitution/