Judge Orders U.S. to Pay Back $130 Billion of Tariffs
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:17.9 | China cuts its economic growth forecast as it preps for an era of slower expansion, plus |
| 0:23.8 | Europe ups its support for the U.S. war on Iran, and a trade court judge tells the Trump |
| 0:29.3 | administration to pay back billions in tariffs. |
| 0:32.4 | The Supreme Court ruling and then this refund ruling both creates a certain idea that |
| 0:36.8 | there's a limit to how the administration can use these tariffs at will to penalize countries from one day to the next. |
| 0:44.6 | It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News. |
| 0:50.3 | The top headlines and business stories moving your world today. |
| 1:06.7 | China has cut its annual economic growth target to a range of four and a half to five percent, |
| 1:14.6 | its lowest expansion goal since 1991. The details were released during China's biggest political gathering, known as the two sessions, |
| 1:19.0 | and kicks off the next five-year plan for the world's second largest economy. |
| 1:24.0 | Economics reporter Hanna Miao told us that Beijing is aiming to reshape its economy as it grapples with challenges both at home and abroad. |
| 1:27.0 | Households are fairly cautious to spend. Investment has slowed down and the real estate market |
| 1:32.5 | is still very much struggling. And last year, China had set a growth target of around 5%. |
| 1:39.6 | And it was really achieved in large part through exports. And that has become an area of increased |
| 1:48.9 | tension with trading partners. The IMF has suggested that China should try to move away from |
| 1:56.1 | relying on exports because it creates all these tensions around this global trade imbalance. |
| 2:01.5 | And while less reliance on exports might be welcome news for countries frustrated by the |
| 2:06.4 | dominance of Chinese products, Hannah told us that the new growth targets include a growing |
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