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Another moment of absolute chaos, in which half-assed policies make it basically impossible for the hypothetical manufacturer looking to plan to produce goods in America to plan ahead and invest.
Luckily things are looking to be a bit more stable now at least. Admins typically put their best foot forward legally speaking so this one getting struck down greatly increases the likelyhood of other tariff arguments in the same manner, which we can assume are weaker than the best foot forward, getting struck too.
Trump might be able to find a more watered down version that does work, the same way Biden found a watered down form of student loan forgiveness but just the same it'll be watered down.
Speaking of chaos though, the admin is definitely going to try to make refunds a mess. And unfortunately even if they do it properly many Americans may now end up effectively double taxed due to paying tariff surcharges passed on by the importers and paying the refunds back for the illegal tariffs to those same importers. A lot of it going to Howard Lutnick's son whose firm has been buying up tariff refund privileges in exchange for immediate cash to handle the additional costs his father's actions helped cause!
Not bloody likely. Trump is going to threaten to put tariffs on again, making very unclear when things will be settled.
Relatively more stable, at least until he starts arguing that him not liking someone's tone of voice is also a national security issue needing tariffs IG. But point being now that businesses can expect the more obviously BS tariffs to be struck down (even if it takes a while) it allows for a little bit more predictability.
Still absurdly chaotic, but 80 chaos is better than 100 chaos.
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