Trade Probe Requests for Comment Abound. Is Anyone Listening?

At 7 p.m. on a Thursday evening at the end of September, President Donald Trump announced new national security tariffs on foreign-made big rig trucks, cabinets and vanities and branded pharmaceuticals. In keeping with other tariff moves thus far in Trump’s second term, the announcement came not as an official White House statement or Federal Register notice, but in a series of posts on the president’s own social media platform.

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