Powerful, obscure law is basis for Trump 'order' on trade
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Source: AP
President Donald Trump is threatening to use the emergency authority granted by a powerful but obscure federal law to make good on his tweeted order to U.S. businesses to cut ties in China amid a spiraling trade war between the two nations.
Trump on Twitter declared American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China. He later clarified that he was threatening to make use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in the trade war, raising questions about the wisdom and propriety of making the 1977 act used to target rogue regimes, terrorists and drug traffickers the newest weapon in the clash between the worlds largest economies.
It would mark the latest grasp of authority by Trump, who has claimed widespread powers not sought by his predecessors despite his own past criticism of their use of executive powers.
For all of the Fake News Reporters that dont have a clue as to what the law is relative to Presidential powers, China, etc., try looking at the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, Trump tweeted late Friday. Case closed! The act gives presidents wide berth in regulating international commerce during times of declared national emergencies. It was not immediately clear how Trump could use the act to force American businesses to move their manufacturing out of China and to the U.S, and Trumps threat appeared premature as he has not declared an emergency with respect to China.
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3Hotdogs
(12,429 posts)dchill
(38,547 posts)Like maybe Russia? Or Greenland?
bucolic_frolic
(43,325 posts)is that Trump is creating a Fake Trade War so he can declare it a real Emergency and invoke the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to invent powers the President does not possess and were not intended by the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.
This is totally bogus.
If you need anything from China, particularly spare parts - electronic, automotive, plumbing, etc - I advise ordering now. Glad I have fairly new tires.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)selling their "designer" goods manufactured in China.
alwaysinasnit
(5,075 posts)China. (sarcasm)
TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)including one for voting machines.
LiberalFighter
(51,107 posts)As for the emergency powers, he is full of it.