The dishonesty inside Trump’s new tariff plan

For those who thought the Supreme Court had ended Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs, think again. In February, the court struck down his sweeping “Liberation Day” levies, ruling that the president did not have emergency powers to tax imports from almost every country on earth. Trump’s response has been to search the statute books for ever more unusual, obscure and maybe illegal ways to restore very similar tariffs.

First came a temporary global tariff. When that expired, the administration imposed tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on 60 economies — more than 80 countries — claiming unfair trade practices. For Canada, Trump reached back to Section 338 of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, a provision that had never been invoked before.

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