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Two small businesses have filed lawsuits against the Trump Administration seeking to overturn its tariffs, marking a shift from absorbing the cost of trade policy to contesting its legal foundation in court.
The case for overturning the tariffs rests on whether federal courts will scrutinize the administration's claimed authority.
The risk is that they won't, and the litigation ends up clarifying, rather than reversing, the measures. What the lawsuits represent Small businesses carry a particular disadvantage in trade disputes.
They lack the lobbying reach of large industry coalitions and typically absorb tariff costs directly, without the supply chain scale to offset them.
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