Trump Weaponizing a 1930 Law to Launch 50% Tariff Attack on Canada

Section 338, Project 2025, and Heritage Foundation playbook behind August 19 deadline.

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

In 1930, the United States passed the most destructive trade law in modern history.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act imposed punitive tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. Canada was the first country to retaliate. Within three years, global trade had collapsed by 65 percent. The Great Depression deepened. Banks failed. The lawmakers who championed the act were voted out of office. The law was so toxic, so thoroughly discredited by the economic devastation it caused, that one of its most powerful provisions (Section 338) was never activated. Not once. For nearly a century, Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 sat dormant in the U.S. legal code like a loaded handgun locked in a drawer.

On July 20, 2026, the Trump administration picked up that handgun and pointed it at Canada.

Fifty percent tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian exports, effective August 19. No Congressional approval. No investigation. No consultation. And the people who told him to pull the trigger are the same people who wrote the Heritage Foundation playbook ‘Project 2025’, and then got hired to run the agencies that execute it.

And here we are again.

Section 338

Most tariff actions follow a process. Under Section 232, the Department of Commerce conducts a formal national security investigation that can take up to 270 days. Under Section 301, the U.S. Trade Representative opens an inquiry, consults with the trading partner, and accepts public comment. Both have statutory timelines. Both produce paper trails. Both give Congress and the courts something to review.

Section 338 has none of that.

The Attack Plan

Continues at https://thedemocracydefender.substack.com/p/deep-dive-report-how-trump-is-weaponizin

Target practice

World leaders are controlled by the same entity or group of entities. Does that suggest Canadians are now in the crosshairs?

Carney vacations in Tuscany while Trump’s 50% tariff deadline looms

Despite the timing of the trip Aug 10-17, 2026, including ongoing high-stakes negotiations with the Americans over trade and continuing economic uncertainty at home — the PMO insists Carney won’t be out of reach. https://torontosun.com/news/national/carney-vacations-in-tuscany-while-trumps-50-tariff-deadline-looms

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Doreen Agostino
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