If at first you don’t succeed, attempt, attempt once more. That’s precisely what President Donald Trump is doing with tariffs.
After the Supreme Court struck down his most sweeping import levies in February, the Trump administration has scrambled to search out authorized pathways to revive them. It has leaned on a patchwork of different commerce legal guidelines, however these authorities are narrower, slower and topic to authorized challenges as properly.
Now comes Plan C, with a brand new set of tariffs anticipated on Friday.
“The specific authorities this administration is using have changed, but the trade strategy has not,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer advised senators on Wednesday.
Here’s how the administration received right here — and the place Trump’s tariff agenda might go subsequent.