Outside voices: Section 232 -- badly broken?

The simplest solution for fixing what is wrong with Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the once-rarely invoked national security tariff provision that became a core component of President Trump’s trade strategy, is this, say two Cato Institute analysts: congressional repeal. Failing that, they argue, the path to dealing with what they call a “problematic path of executive overreach” lies in some combination of congressional rewriting and presidential restraint. “The Trump administration’s abuse … has allowed the...