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My New Lawfare Article on Why "The President Doesn't Have Unlimited Power to Impose Import Bans"

Many of the same constitutional and other constraints apply as with tariffs.

Ilya Somin | 10.5.2026 1:54 PM

Today, Lawfare published my new article "The President Doesn't Have Unlimited Power to Impose Import Bans." Here is an excerpt:

President Trump recently tried to use Section 338 of the notorious Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 to ban several categories of Canadian imports outright, as........

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