Scott Bessent: “Section 301 [of trade policy] has survived more than 5,000…”

“But what we found, and it's counterintuitive that a lot of corporates had held up their, some of their capex because of the IEPO lawsuit that eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. Right. So now using Section 301 [of trade policy] has survived more than 5,000 legal challenges. they will be certain of what the tariff policy is. So I'm expecting we are already seeing a pickup in capex.” (07:31–08:09)

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