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There are probably a few ways the president could do it unilaterally, legally: 1) Raise tariffs to absurd levels (like, 10000% tax on anything from China). 2)
by ashelmire 7y ago
There are probably a few ways the president could do it unilaterally, legally:
1) Raise tariffs to absurd levels (like, 10000% tax on anything from China).
2) Some sort of national defense justification. He could probably put all employees, companies, and executives on terrorism or customs watch lists and make life difficult for them.
3) Use existing sanctions on other nations as a way to forbid doing business with various entities in China.
There's probably also another way to do it that would, presumably, be illegal:
4) Unilaterally blockade the nation, since he's chief of the armed forces (this is an act of war).
- wyldfire 7y ago> that would, presumably, be illegal: It's not worth enumerating the illegal things that the President can do. It's not bounded by anything.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> There's probably also another way to do it that would, presumably, be illegal: Whether the President commiting acts of war unilaterally is illegal depends on disputed Constitutional questions, such as the scope of Presidential inherent powers and the Constitutionality of the delegation of powers to the President under the War Powers Act.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoCan the president unilaterally decide the levels of tariffs on imports? Without congressional oversight or veto?