Trump's Nvidia-AMD deal adds to the legal questions about US trade policies

It is a gross understatement to say that the Trump administration’s trade policies violate previously accepted norms—international as well as domestic. They also raise a host of serious legal questions. Examples abounded even before the president raised new ones with his unprecedented profit-sharing agreement with semiconductor companies Nvidia and AMD.
Are the blanket tariffs levied in February and March and on April 2 (dubbed by the president as “Liberation Day”), or their updated versions imposed on August 7, authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the…