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Speaker 1: Money's coming into the treasury through this thing where we're

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Speaker 1: what does the future hold here when it comes to

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Speaker 1: these tariffs. Michelle Schultz is with Schultz Trade Law in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: an expert on such things, joining the show this morning. Michelle,

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Speaker 1: how are you well?

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Speaker 2: How are you five?

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Speaker 1: That's fine, everything's good except for tariffs. So Friday Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court rule six y three that the tariffs are legal,

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Speaker 1: and the court said, look, This is not your job.

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Speaker 1: This is a job of Congress. And we've collected some

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five billion in tariff revenue right now,

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Speaker 1: What the hell does this all mean? It would be

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Speaker 1: and we're going to go with fifteen percent tariffs now

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Speaker 1: a second mortgage. Let's jump into this whole thing, Michelle,

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Speaker 1: and I guess the question is why do to take

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Speaker 1: This is a lot to spend on the books. What

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Speaker 2: which is known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act

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Speaker 2: we use it for things that are national emergencies, like

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Speaker 2: wrong people so that they're used against us. But this

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Speaker 2: one is being used for terrorists. So it's it's been

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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court has really struggled with what to do

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Speaker 1: One, obviously too, as split as they were. Trump not

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Speaker 1: I guess another section of this law that says, well,

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty days till Congress extends them.

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Speaker 1: And it seems like, if I'm reading this incorrectly, he can.

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Speaker 1: He's just transferred one terror for another and saying, all right,

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Speaker 2: That's what I expect. Yes, I think you're right on

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Speaker 1: She is Michelle Schultz Schultz Trade Law. She's a trade

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Speaker 1: attorney with the court striking down Trump's tariffs. And what

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Speaker 2: But now we've got a completely different set of rules

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Speaker 1: I tell you, it sound like you gout. You know,

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Speaker 1: Basically, it sounds to me like if you're counting on

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Speaker 1: If you're a shopper online shop for that bat. There's

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Speaker 1: a wonky legal term called deminimus, and the deminimous loophole

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Speaker 2: So there used to be a deminimous amount of eight

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Speaker 1: And that was the workaround for a lot of Chinese

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Speaker 1: Michelle Schultz is a trade lawyer with Schultz Trade Lawn Dallas,

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Speaker 1: It is something to see. I don't know, and this

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