
Victor Owen Schwartz
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Sep 17, 2026
EP. 9: A Small NY Wine Importer Took On the President of the United States on Tariffs. Guess Who Won.
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13:48SarahHOST
I could
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13:53Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
International Economic Emergency Powers Act, okay? IE book does not mention tariffs.
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14:04Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
There's also something, a concept, which came out under the Biden administration called major decisions, major issues doctrine.
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19:00SarahHOST
So how do you see this playing out?
Business Rundown: The Supreme Court’s Tariff Blow & What’s Next for American Business?
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2:24Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
You know, I only started on the journey with the idea of talking to Ilya Somin, who's one of the co-counsels.
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2:31Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
He's a professor of law at the, uh, Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University.
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2:38Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
And I just got in touch with him because of a family member telling me that he was fighting the tariffs, and I said, "Wow, you know, I'm in the wine, uh, and spirits import and distribution business," and I felt, God, if there's any- ever an industry that is the canary in the coal mine, it's us.
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2:54Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
And I just got on the phone and, and got to speak to Ilya, uh, who's a wonderful person, and, uh, very, very smart, and, uh, just to tell him what was going on in my industry.
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3:07Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
I didn't know IEEPA from my elbow, [chuckles] you know? So, I mean, I didn't know any of these things, and I didn't even know that the tariffs were illegal.

Lydia HuHOST
How did the IEEPA tariffs impact you, and how did that change your business over the past year, having to handle those tariffs?
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Business Rundown: The Supreme Court’s Tariff Blow & What’s Next for American Business?
Feb 23 · 20m
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1:54Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
You know, I only started on the journey with the idea of talking to Ilya Somin, who's one of the co-counsels.
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2:01Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
He's a professor of law at the, uh, Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University.
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2:08Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
And I just got in touch with him because of a family member telling me that he was fighting the tariffs, and I said, "Wow, you know, I'm in the wine, uh, and spirits import and distribution business." And I felt, God, if there's any- ever an industry that is the canary in the coal mine, it's us.
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2:24Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
And I just got on the phone and, and got to speak to Ilya, uh, who's a wonderful person, and, uh, very, very smart, and, uh, just to tell him what was going on in my industry.
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2:37Victor Owen SchwartzGUEST
I didn't know IEEPA from my elbow, [laughs] you know? So, I mean, I didn't know any of these things, and I didn't even know that the tariffs were illegal.

Lydia HuHOST
How did the IEEPA tariffs impact you, and how did that change your business over the past year, having to handle those tariffs?