In President Donald Trump’s second term, tariff relief no longer runs through a bureaucratic process; rather, it runs straight through the Oval Office.
Trump, long a proponent of tariffs, has implemented far more aggressive tariffs this year than during his first term. Also notable is that the administration has essentially done away with the process used tens of thousands of times to get exclusions from the tariffs.
“It’s not formal, it’s not structured, there are not criteria,” Bill Reinsch with the Center for Strategic and International Studies told the Washington Examiner. “And the first term had all of those — I mean, it was a process, it was structured, it was formal, there were criteria.”
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