Care to invest in the U.S. during a trade war?
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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President Donald Trump has tried to pressure foreign countries to invest in the U.S. by threatening tariffs. But for decades, the federal government has also been putting on the SelectUSA Investment Summit, a giant trade show where states and businesses try to attract foreign investors. We have a dispatch from this year's Investment Summit. Plus, some of Trump's latest tariffs have been deemed illegal. And: a better-than-expected jobs report and some slower-than-expected World Cup hotel bookings.
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| 1:06.1 | Illegal tariffs, round two from Marketplace. I'm Sabrina Beneshire in New York. |
| 1:11.2 | You might remember how many of President Trump's tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court earlier this year, and the administration then whipped up new tariffs to replace them? |
| 1:20.5 | Well, the U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled the new tariffs are also illegal. |
| 1:25.4 | These tariffs were set to expire in July anyway, and it's a narrow ruling blocking the import taxes for just two companies in the state of Washington. |
| 1:32.4 | Stephen Brown is here to talk about it. He's Chief North America economist at Capital Economics. Good morning. |
| 1:37.4 | Hey, good morning. These tariffs were just kind of placeholder tariffs while the administration figures out the next round of tariffs |
| 1:45.6 | it's going to impose. Do we know what those are going to look like? Originally, the Trump |
| 1:50.1 | administration used something called AIPA, which essentially gave a huge amount of flexibility to impose |
| 1:55.3 | tariffs on any country, any product at any rate. After the section 1-2 section 112, it's going to lean on another section |
| 2:02.6 | 301. That means they have to find some sort of unfair trade practices. So there's two investigations |
| 2:09.8 | ongoing, which are related to kind of alleged excess manufacturing production capacity in some |
| 2:15.8 | countries, which would certainly be fair in some cases, |
| 2:18.5 | particularly China, for example. And then another one relating to the idea that countries aren't |
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