Debate over proposed national electric vehicle fees

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They are about unfair trade practices investigations, particularly about forced labor policies involving some sixty nations, including countries in the European Union Also Canada, Mexico, the UK. lastast month, the U.S. Trade Representativ's offffice said it had completed investigations and lo and behold, those countries were not doing enough to combat forced labor. And so the USTR is suggesting tariffs of ten percent and twelvecent point a fivealf percent depending on the country, and that's how they'd replace the tariffs the Supreme Court struck down Now we have these Democratic state attorneys general getting involved. What are they saying Yeah, there it's a group of twenty two AGs. They've sent a letter saying this latest effort to impose tariffs is illegitimate. They point out that the new tariffs would cover ninety nine percent of goods coming into the US on grounds that there are some sort of forced labor violations involved. And the agGies also say that these unfair trade practices probes were rushed, done in a matter of a few months. The broader context is that the clock is ticking on the Trump administration. President Trump reimposed ten percent tariffs U on a temporary basis through another authority, he claimed. Th the deadline there is july twenty fourth. And these unfair trade taxes investigations are the most direct path to setting new permanent tariffs without Congress getting involved. All right, Marketplac is Novafo, thank you so much. You're welcome. It is once again time for publicly traded companies to tell everyone how they're doing. It is earnings season. And among those who are reporting their quarterly results this week are Pepsi and Delta Airlines But the Securities and Exchange Commission under President Trump has proposed changing how businesses report results inststead of doing it once a quarter, they would do it just twice per year Monday was the deadline for comments on this idea. 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If you don't drive a gas car, you're not paying a gas tax. And gas taxes pay for building roads and fixing them too. To make up for that, most states have now added annual fees for EV owners And now Congress is considering adding a national fee, starting at one hundred and thirty dollarsty a year. Marketplace' Henry Epp reports When Andy Pury of Benson, Vermont bought an electric Ford F one hundred fifty lightning last year, he noticed the extra eighty nine dollars he had to pay the state. That was on top of the registration fee, also eighty nine dollars that all vehicles have to pay. But he didn't really mind I'm not gonna to go get my torch and my pitchfork. Because the state's electric vehicle fee is in place of the gas tax, which he doesn't pay anymore. So the EV fee seemed fair. We all have to pay to use you know, public resources, public facilities and infrastructure and that's just me having to pay the piper