… Policy Memorandum, a sweeping directive to Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security, USTR and other agencies to stop treating trade. And as a technocratic afterthought instead of an instrument of national strategy, Last April, the President declared a national emergency tied to the cumulative effects of foreign trade practices and announced reciprocal tariff actions framed explicitly around national and economic security. Again, people can debate design, sequencing and scope, so healthy democracies should debate those questions. But no one should miss the larger point. (09:20–09:35)
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Asserts that a national emergency was declared due to foreign trade practices, leading to reciprocal tariff actions.
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