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Episode 4240: Tariffs Unleashed On Canada, Mexico, And China

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Episode 4240: Tariffs Unleashed On Canada, Mexico, And China 

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0:00.0

The high risk, high reward proposition. If it works, I would expect this to mark a new era in U.S. foreign policy, one in which a broader set of economic tools are on the table.

0:09.6

Kenyanne has short joined us now for more.

0:11.2

Kelly, I'm welcome to the program. I just want to go back to the first term because I think we all familiarized ourselves with Section 232, National Security, 301, unfair trade practices.

0:20.9

This was new over the weekend.

0:22.5

They used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

0:25.8

Kelly, what do people need to know about the use of that tool and whether it might be challenged?

0:31.0

Yeah, thank you so much for having me back on this morning.

0:33.8

It's certainly an interesting Monday for any company who's operating in the United

0:38.6

States, Canada, Mexico, and China, or have supply chains in any one of those economies.

0:43.8

So, Aieba, right, this is the first time that a president has invoked tariffs on the basis

0:50.5

of a national emergency. And AEPA is a national security authority.

0:55.8

It is different than 232 or Section 301,

0:58.9

which supported the steel and aluminum tariffs

1:00.8

and the China tariffs.

1:01.7

Those had an investigation that made findings

1:04.5

about the threat of imports or discrimination

1:07.0

or unfair trade practices.

1:08.9

This is about a pure emergency and national security issue,

1:13.0

which the president has identified as fentanyl and illegal immigration.

1:17.5

So, Kelly, when the national security threat is resolved, what happens next? Do the tariffs get lifted?

1:22.9

Well, presumably. And if you look at the three executive orders that the president issued on Saturday,

1:28.4

the legal basis for expanding the national emergency is the illicit flow of fentanyl and migration.

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