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3. Why doesn't the MSM point out these tariffs are just as illegal as the ones SCOTUS struck down?
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 01:13 PM
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All they point out is the 150 day limit. But Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. § 2132) requires a "large and serious balance-of-payments deficit" before it can be implemented. We don't have a balance-of-payments defecit at all. A balance-of-payments defecit is not the same as a trade deficit., they are two different things.

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