Trump Is Using a Trade Law Relic to Illegally Punish Canada

Source: The Dispatch
by Ilya Somin

“Courts have already ruled against two avenues President Donald Trump used to impose his tariff regime. That hasn’t stopped his efforts to attempt to deploy obscure or outdated trade law provisions to justify new import levies. His latest tool is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, the notorious legislation that gravely exacerbated the Great Depression. … Even if Section 338 is still operative, Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods violate its requirements.” (11/02/26)

https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-canada-tariffs-section-338-lawsuit/