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0 pointsAnimats1mo ago0 comments

This law firm seems to be on top of changes. The site just updated with Trump's latest proclamation.

    Section 122: Implemented (effective Feb. 24, 2026) [1]

That's Trump's new 10% tariff applied to most countries. There are some exceptions. Most of the extreme per-country tariffs are gone. For now, anyway. Trump may add Section 201 tariffs later, but those are per product category. What Trump can do in this mode doesn't include most of his per-country "deals".

Amusingly, the new 10% tariff doesn't apply until Feb 24th, so you have a few days to avoid it. All this expires July 24th, because the law being invoked here has a time limit unless Congress extends it.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/impo...

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defrost1mo ago

> because the law being invoked here has a time limit unless Congress extends it.

Like many similar US laws it probably has a time limit expressed in lapsed Congressional days.

Heavy emphasis on "Congressional days".

Catch me up here, has the Congressional "clock" (count of lapsed days) been restarted since the current admin shut it down as almost the first order of business for 2025?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358343

  Each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622) with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025.

Is it still "legally" the first week of the 119th United States Congress 11 months later ?

zerocrates1mo ago

The IEEPA one works where it can last as long as the "emergency," which Congress can vote to end. The "days don't count as days" game just lets the House have an easier time of not bringing it up for a vote.

This other authority is different: it's limited within the law to 150 days and then has to be extended by Congress. So the same kind of strategy of just avoiding a vote doesn't work here. They could monkey with the deadline, but can't do so any more easily than just actually extending the tariff for real. Of course just like today you can have Trump jump to some new authority on day 151 instead.

cma1mo ago

> it's limited within the law to 150 days and then has to be extended by Congress.

Isn't that one also limited to targetted tariffs? He's applied it worldwide...

defrost1mo ago

> Of course just like today you can have Trump jump to some new authority on day 151 instead.

Of the many articles on this matter written in the last 24 hours, a few that I read sketched out other sections of old never used law that Trump might land on after the current "new" 10% tariff expires its 150 day life.

While I'm not a fan .. credit to the Project 2025 people behind Trump that really put the effort into gaming out the overthrow of the established post war US order .. seemingly no loophole left unexplored.

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0 pointsAnimats1mo ago0 comments

This law firm seems to be on top of changes. The site just updated with Trump's latest proclamation.

    Section 122: Implemented (effective Feb. 24, 2026) [1]

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/impo...

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defrost1mo ago

> because the law being invoked here has a time limit unless Congress extends it.

Like many similar US laws it probably has a time limit expressed in lapsed Congressional days.

Heavy emphasis on "Congressional days".

Catch me up here, has the Congressional "clock" (count of lapsed days) been restarted since the current admin shut it down as almost the first order of business for 2025?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358343

  Each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622) with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025.

Is it still "legally" the first week of the 119th United States Congress 11 months later ?

zerocrates1mo ago

cma1mo ago

> it's limited within the law to 150 days and then has to be extended by Congress.

Isn't that one also limited to targetted tariffs? He's applied it worldwide...

defrost1mo ago

> Of course just like today you can have Trump jump to some new authority on day 151 instead.

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