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Wall Street Breakfast

How Trump can bring back tariffs

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business, Investing, Business News, News

3.8950 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Goldman Sachs outlines four legal avenues for White House to enact tariffs after trade court ruling. (0:15) First-quarter GDP contracts a little less than first estimated. (2:24) HP tumbles after earnings. (3:39)  

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Lunch, our afternoon update on today's market action, news, and analysis.

0:09.8

Good afternoon. Today is Thursday, May 29th, and I'm your host, Kim Khan. Our top story so far.

0:16.0

You heard on Wall Street breakfast this morning about the trade court ruling against the White House's April tariffs imposed using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.

0:26.1

But Goldman Sachs, Chief U.S. political economist Alex Phillips, says there are four ways for the

0:31.2

administration to impose similar tariffs, regardless of how an appeal turns out.

0:35.9

Number one, the administration could quickly replace the 10% across-the-board tariff

0:40.3

with a similar tariff of up to 15% under Section 122.

0:44.3

Those tariffs would last for only up to 150 days, after which the law requires congressional action to extend.

0:50.3

The law is not clear on whether those tariffs can stop and restart, Philip says,

0:54.2

but it authorizes the president to address a balance of payments deficit or to prevent an

0:59.0

imminent and significant depreciation in the dollar, but it does not require any formal

1:03.2

investigation or process, so the administration could theoretically replace the current 10%

1:07.8

tariff with a Section 122-based tariff within days if deemed necessary.

1:13.0

Number two, the U.S. Trade Representative could quickly launch Section 301 investigations

1:17.3

on key trading partners for unfair trading practices, laying the procedural groundwork for tariffs

1:22.5

after the investigation is complete. There was no level on duration of the tariffs,

1:26.7

but investigations would likely

1:27.9

take several weeks, he said. Number three, Section 232 tariffs, based on national security grounds,

1:34.1

which President Trump has already used for steel, aluminum, and autos, could be broadened to cover

1:38.8

other sectors. We already expect additional sectoral tariffs, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and

1:43.8

electronics, etc., and uncertainty regarding the IEPA sectoral tariffs, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and electronics,

1:44.5

etc., and uncertainty regarding the IEEPA-based tariffs could lead the White House to put

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