In 2025, he expanded steel and aluminum tariffs, increasing the aluminum rate to 25%, eliminating all country exemptions. To date, the Trump administration has launched 12 different section 232 investigations concluded five. And then there's finally Section 201 of the Trade act of 1974... permits temporary safeguard tariffs to protect domestic industries from serious injury caused by import surges. Trump has used section 201 to put tariffs on solar cells, on modules, and in residential washing machines. Look, the long and short of it, you guys don't need to memorize all those different section numbers. (25:40–25:55)
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Asserts that the Trade Act of 1974 allows temporary tariffs to protect domestic industries from import surges.
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