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unfortunately. Companies are saying, “I don’t understand what I need to fill out. This paperwork, I don’t understand the regulatory analysis. This is not in my wheelhouse and all these rules are new.” So it’s creating more cost, both internally and expenditures with third party experts, to make sure that the company is paying the right amount or looking at the strategies to avoid it. Traditionally, we’ve seen with this kind of administration, less paperwork, but unfortunately, now it’s more paperwork. There’s a lot of tariffs, and they’re implemented un- der different laws and regulations. Each tariff may fall into the same legal grouping of the President’s authority, but they’re very different. Then you have tariffs that are in to- tally different legal buckets, some which are currently un- der dispute. Congress has the primary authority to levy taxes and duties. However, some of that authority over time has been delegated to the President. And so the President is using his delegated authority to implement tariffs. Reciprocal Tariffs The reciprocal tariff or the International Emergency Economic Power Act are being challenged at the court; whether or not the President can use that authority to im- plement tariff is currently in the Supreme Court. The Sec- tion 232 National Security Tariffs are not under any signif- icant legal dispute. They have the strongest grounding in the President’s authority, and that’s steel and aluminum, copper, automotive, and then we’ve got furniture, heavy trucks, light trucks, passenger vehicles, a long list of things that have been implemented under the Section 232 provi- sion for national security. Let’s think about a situation where the reciprocal tariffs are challenged. And this is my opinion, but the President is unlikely to just roll over. He’s just going to switch tariffs to other powers. The reciprocal tariffs are those tailored country-specific rates. And if you’re hearing news about deals with individual countries, that is the tariff mechanism he’s using to drive deals with these individual countries. A lot of machinery is currently not subject to the steel and aluminum tariff. However, the domestic industry and interested parties have the ability to request that certain things be put on the list. Now, whether or not there’s a vested domestic interest in having machinery on the steel and aluminum tariff list is another story. But if your machinery, for whatever reason, did end up on the list, the tariff is only assessed on the value of the metal content, not the value of the entire machine. There’s a lot of ambiguity about this right now. Where there is gray area, there’s potentially room for aggressive positions or more conservative positions, depending on how you look at it. But for steel and aluminum tariff, if you find yourself needing to evaluate or looking at those tariffs, that’s a big theme right now. And you want to make sure that you’re only paying the amount of tariff that you have to, which is
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