Source-backed trade-policy analysis for import-scope decisions. Start from a product line, origin, supplier, or case, then move from public record to operating posture.
A 100 percent DST tariff threat points to Section 301, but collection still needs a USTR instrument, product scope, effective date, and HTS language.
USTR's forced-labor Section 301 case is strongest on authority and weakest on method, and Switzerland is the cleanest case showing why.
The EU has legislated its Turnberry concessions into binding Union law, while the U.S. ceiling now rests on a contested, expiring Section 122 bridge under appeal.
Section 122's surcharge sunsets July 24. The lapse removes the fixed 10 percent number India can model across non-exempt goods and shifts the fight to Section 301 and Section 232.
The administration's defense of the Section 122 surcharge rests on one measurement claim, now tested across the WTO record, the CIT decision, and the Federal Circuit appeal.
India's 18% rate was promised under the IEEPA reciprocal regime the Supreme Court struck down, and no durable Section 301 or 122 authority yet carries it.
The Hormuz toll is not a tariff. The real exposure sits at the import border, in Section 122 and any legally issued Section 232 or 301 measures, not the strait.
Hormuz hands the administration a supply-chain-security story, but helium sits outside the current Section 232 tariff architecture. The docket the shock reinforces is Section 301, not 232.
Section 301 supplies the tariff power IEEPA lacked. The German drug-pricing case is weak instead on statutory fit and the causal chain to U.S. commerce.
Staiger's WTO reform case preserves MFN and consensus, but U.S. tariff practice after IEEPA now runs through Section 122, 232, and 301 tools that do not.