Trump Plans New Tariffs on Six Industries
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's your morning brief for Tuesday, February 24th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:08.0 | We're exclusively reporting that the Trump administration is considering placing tariffs on six industries under national security grounds. |
| 0:15.6 | That includes levies on large-scale batteries, industrial chemicals, and power grid and telecom equipment. |
| 0:21.5 | The president is looking for new ways to impose duties and his bid to reshape global trade |
| 0:25.9 | after the Supreme Court ruled most were illegal, including those issued under the International |
| 0:31.5 | Emergency Economic Powers Act. FedEx has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking |
| 0:37.2 | a full refund plus interest |
| 0:39.1 | for what it paid in trade duties stemming from President Trump's tariffs enacted last year. |
| 0:44.1 | The Supreme Court's decision didn't address whether the government will have to pay back the |
| 0:48.0 | tariff revenue it already has collected, but it did say that challenges to the tariffs fall |
| 0:53.0 | within the jurisdiction of the Court of |
| 0:55.1 | International Trade. A handful of other companies are also suing the Trump administration |
| 0:59.8 | trying to recoup some of the tariffs paid, including Costco, Revlon, Bumblebee Foods, and |
| 1:04.7 | Kawasaki Motors. And U.S. stock futures are pointing to a higher open following yesterday's |
| 1:09.9 | sell-off, sparked by fears of |
| 1:11.4 | AI disruption and trade policy uncertainty. Software and financial stocks have slipped in Asia and |
| 1:17.2 | Europe this morning, but overall markets seem to have stabilized. That said, one of the drags |
| 1:22.1 | on the Dow yesterday was also airline stocks, which tumbled as the so-called bomb cyclone battered the East Coast, |
| 1:28.6 | grounding thousands of flights. |
| 1:30.6 | Airports, including JFK and Logan, have seen major disruptions with another 2,000 flights canceled in the U.S. so far today. |
| 1:38.4 | And we've got a lot more coverage of the day's news on the WS.J's What's News podcast. |
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