A federal appeals court today ruled that President Trump has no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs on nearly every country in the world.

But the court is allowing the tariffs to remain in place until at least mid-October, giving the Trump administration time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

That comes as another piece of the President's Tariff's plan goes into effect.

Starting today, Americans are no longer able to import cheap foreign goods tariff-free, at least for now.

The Trump administration ended the so-called de minimis exemption, which allowed packages valued at less than $800 to enter the U.S. with no import tax.

Last year, there were nearly four million such packages a day, over $1.3 billion overall.

The end of that exemption for goods from China went into effect this spring.

Today, it was extended to the rest of the world.

For more on this, I spoke just before the court decision with Clark Packard.

He's a trade expert at the Libertarian Cato Institute. Clark, welcome to the show. Thanks

for joining us. Thanks for having me on. So most people may not have even known that they were

benefiting from this de minimis exemption, but now that it's gone, what is the impact? What

kinds of goods are impacted and what type of shoppers?

Yeah, that's a good question. Goods that arrive in the United States under the de minimis exemption

tend to be clothing, footwear, small electronics. So think about a phone charger, for example,

as well as durable goods. So a phone case might arrive in the U.S.

or something like leather, again, but it tends to be more on the footwear and apparel side.

And so what does that mean for the shopping experience? What changes? Everything is now subject

to tariff, so it costs more. Is there additional paperwork for customs? What changes? Everything is now subject to tariffs, so it costs more.

Is there additional paperwork for customs? What happens?

Both of those, certainly. Yeah, the products that now arrive that would have been duty-free

are now subject to the tariffs that have increased under the Trump administration, so prices

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