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What—you didn’t know your Subaru was a national security threat?
On Wednesday evening, Trump instructed the Commerce Department to
investigate whether to raise tariffs to up to 25 percent on auto imports.
The official rationale for launching this probe wasn’t that foreign
countries were “dumping” their products at unfairly low prices, stealing
our intellectual property or otherwise engaging in the sort of foul play
that administrations past have alleged when threatening tariffs.
No, in this case, Trump has instructed Commerce to probe whether imports of
automobiles and auto parts “threaten to impair the national security.”
Yes, you read that right. Late ’70s British pop stars may feel safest of
all in their cars, but apparently Americans today should not.
If this all seems a bit far-fetched, well, that’s because it is.
Trump also cited national security when he announced his steel and aluminum
tariffs in March (“If you don’t have steel, you don’t have a country!”).
The logic was shaky then; it’s maxing out the Richter scale now.
Even U.S. automakers don’t think auto tariffs would be justified.
“We are confident that vehicle imports do not pose a national security risk
to the U.S.,” said the Auto Alliance, a trade group of U.S. and foreign
manufacturers that operate in the United States. “We urge the
Administration to support policies that remove barriers to free trade and we
will continue to work with them and provide input to achieve that goal.”
Moreover, U.S. auto imports are dominated by our biggest military allies.
Last year, 98 percent of new passenger vehicle imports came from Mexico,
Canada, Japan, South Korea and the European Union, according to the Commerce
Department’s International Trade Administration.
To add insult to injury, literally a day before Trump made this announcement
, he told reporters that he was working to ease penalties on ZTE.
ZTE, you may recall, is a partially state-owned Chinese telecom giant that
admitted to illegally selling phones to Iran and North Korea. Our
intelligence community has repeatedly called it a national security threat,
saying that ZTE devices could be used as surveillance tools against
Americans.
So how is it that Trump seems so unconcerned by the (real) national security
risk posed by a Chinese firm that may be spying on us, and so much more
worried about the (imagined) national security risk of cars made by our
friends?
Maybe this is just what happens when you’re stuck in the 1980s, when Japan
auto panic reached a fever pitch.
More likely, Trump has gotten drunk on a power that Congress ceded to the
White House.
Under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Congress — which the Constitution
says is supposed to regulate trade — authorized the president to impose
tariffs when required by “national security,” regardless of any existing
free-trade agreements. This law offers relatively broad language about what
“national security” actually means, however. And compared to some other
kinds of trade disputes, the process here for determining what justifies a
tariff is relatively nontransparent.
All of which suggests that this authority could be easily abused.
Previous presidents, however, have very rarely invoked it, generally for
sensitive commodities such as uranium or oil. And with good reason: slapping
tariffs willy-nilly in the name of “national security” could provoke
other countries to retaliate in the name of their own “national security.”
“I know if I do it, you’ll do it, too, and that could ruin the whole thing
for everybody,” said Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute
for International Economics. Unfortunately, he said, “Trump doesn’t mind
ruining the whole thing for everybody.”
Besides the power trip, Trump seems to think that threatening these auto
tariffs might give him leverage over Mexico and Canada in NAFTA negotiations
. Those countries might be desperate to make a deal, no matter how lousy,
rather than face the painful possibility of losing NAFTA altogether and
getting stuck with a 25 percent auto tariff.
Here’s the problem with that strategy.
Under the Trade Expansion Act, the president can still decide a year from
now, or two years from now, to unilaterally invoke “national security”
once again and override any NAFTA 2.0. Which means there’s no way to know
that Trump won’t use it as extortion again, when he wants something else.
If you’re Mexico or Canada, would you trust Trump to keep his word?
And that, boys and girls, may be the real flaw in Congress’s abdication of
power back in 1962: Lawmakers clearly assumed that we’d always have a
president who cared about his — and his country’s — reputation.
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这个...安全性有多种解说,据说可以解释成与经济安全相关?和天朝的做法类似。:)
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