This is CBSI on the World. I'm John Bachelor with Philip Wallach of the American Enterprise Institute,

the author of Why Congress, 2023, and I look forward to the book because Philip and I joked,

Wilson's got to be in there somewhere, and Phil laughed and said, yep, he is. But we're past

Wilson now. We've come to the inheritor

of the New Deal, Harry Truman. What is GATT? What is the significance? 1947, fellow.

Right. So Truman, without really having the backing of Congress very strongly at all, goes and

negotiates the general agreements

on tariffs and trade, GATT, which is, I think I think of it as sort of the precursor to the

World Trade Organization, sort of a world body that's going to try to liberalize trade around

the world. And he negotiates it, gets the United States into it,

even though Congress is not really so enthusiastic about it. But Congress doesn't repudiate that

and eventually comes to accept it over the course of the 1950s.

Did he hold in his power the arbitrary decision-making of protectionism or tariffs or did Congress still

use its authority? I think this was, he is still using the same powers as Franklin

Roosevelt to sort of liberalize trade. All the direction in this area is toward freer trade, and the president is the engine

of that change.

Now we come to John F. Kennedy's brief time in the White House and the Trade Expansion Act

of 1962.

Here's the discovery in your piece for me.

Section 232.

I hear it mentioned all the time along with 301.

What is Section 232?

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