Trump Predicts Surge in Tariff Payments as Business Inventories Dwindle
President TRUMP anticipates a dramatic increase in tariff payments as U.S. businesses exhaust stockpiles built earlier this year to circumvent duties. "Tariffs will be paid on everything they apply to, without avoidance, and the amounts payable to the USA will SKYROCKET," Trump declared on Truth Social, framing the expected revenue as unprecedented.
The Supreme Court's pending decision on the legality of these tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act looms over the administration's strategy. A ruling against the measure could force a pivot to alternative legal mechanisms like Sections 301 or 122 of the Trade Act to maintain the trade policy.