Section 301 and the Spice Man who Sued Trump Over Them

ChinaTalk · Oct 2, 2026 · 1h 5m

In February, the Supreme Court ruled Trump's IEEPA tariffs illegal. So why is everyone still paying them? Because the administration rebuilt them: first under Section 122, then under Section 301, and now the 301 tariffs are in court too.

So ChinaTalk's series on the people suing the U.S. government over tariffs continues.

Ethan Frisch is the co-founder of Burlap & Barrel, a single-origin spice company importing from about 28 countries, and a plaintiff in both the Section 122 suit (which he won) and the Section 301 challenge, argued before the Court of International Trade the day before we…