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Today, Donald Trump announced plans<\/a> to impose 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian imports to the United States:<\/p>\n President Trump is imposing 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods, from hockey equipment to alcoholic beverages, escalating the trade dispute between the two countries.<\/p>\n The new tariffs \u2014 laid out in a series<\/a> of proclamations<\/a> signed by Mr. Trump<\/a> on Monday \u2014 are set to take effect on Aug. 19. The White House accused Canada<\/a> of “unreasonable, unequal, and discriminatory actions” by imposing tariffs or import restrictions on certain American goods, some of which began after Mr. Trump’s initial round of tariffs on Canada last year.<\/p>\n In retaliation for last year’s Canadian tariffs<\/a> on certain U.S. auto imports, the Trump administration slapped tariffs<\/a> on certain Canadian electronics, hockey equipment, honey, flower bulbs, down feathers, plywood, cowhides, jewelry and other goods. The White House also imposed tariffs on Canadian beer, wine, liquor and milk, in response to Canadian boycotts<\/a> of U.S. alcohol in response to last year’s tariffs and longstanding Canadian quotas<\/a> on dairy imports.<\/p>\n Goods that flow across the border under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA \u2014 a trade deal inked during Mr. Trump’s first term \u2014 will not be exempt from the new tariffs, a senior administration official told reporters Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The new tariffs are based on Section 338 of the notorious 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff legislation, which severely exacerbated the Great Depression. As Philip Zelikow of the conservative Hoover Institution explained in a guest post<\/a> here at the VC blog, last year, Section 338 was long-ago superseded by new legislation enacted in 1962 and 1974, and is therefore defunct. For that reason, it has not been used since at least the 1940s.<\/p>\n Georgetown University trade policy scholar Peter Harrell summarizes additional useful points<\/a> about the new tariffs on Twitter, including some additional legal objections to them. Should the new tariffs come into effect, there will likely be legal challenges, and those challenges will richly deserve to prevail.<\/p>\n I would add that this is just the latest of a series of efforts by Trump to usurp congressional tariff authority and impose harmful and dangerous trade restrictions that damage the US economy and poison relations with our allies and trading partners, of which Canada is one of the most important. That includes\u00a0the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court<\/a> in February, in a case I helped bring, the \u00a0Section 122 tariffs \u00a0invalidated<\/a> by the US Court of International Trade, his massive planned Section 301 tariffs<\/a>, and – most recently – his threat to impose tariffs in Canada in response to wildfires there<\/a>. Courts should continue to reject these dangerous power grabs and affronts to the rule of law<\/a>.<\/p>\n I may well have more to say about these new tariffs later, especially if they end up getting implemented, as currently planned.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Trump Plans to Impose New Illegal Tariffs on Canada<\/a> appeared first on Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 50% tariffs on many Canadian imports are based on the long-defunct Section 338 of the notorious Smoot-Hawley tariff act. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129378"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n