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["don't read tonneson and a china adv"]

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["1AC",null,"1NC","2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["Congress should restrict the President’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs "]
["Plan effectively limits unilateral tariff authority "]
["Only WTO enforcement solves—China has a high record of compliance, there’s an effective dispute-settlement mechanism for every Trump claim about Chinese IP theft, and unilateral tariffs fail. "]
["Our studies are robust – territorial diversion increases the risk of conflict "]

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{"sheet":"Topicality","index":3,"n_rows":14,"n_cols":7,"rows_kept":14}
["1NC",null,"2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["restriction requires prohibition of an entire topic list area"]
["“In the area” means all of the activities",1]
["Violations – the affirmative solely restricts imports from China \n--either it sets conditions that can be met, or just limits the scope\n",null,"We meet -- the aff prohibits Trump tariff power.  "]
["Limits – absent prohibition of an area, every single condition or regulation acts as a functional restriction on some single process of war powers authority – dozens of tiny mechanisms and small subsets of areas create an infinite number of affs that core lit doesn’t check"]
[null,null,"Restrict means a limit- not just prohibition – only our interp is in the context of commerce"]
["Bidirectionality – absent a prohibition, the aff can create meaningless “conditions” that EXPAND presidential power"]
[null,null,"Aff ground outweighs -- they limit treaties and trade to just the topic stem wording. "]
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[null,null,"K2 topic education. Wto core lit"]
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[null,null,"Better pic ground, literature, and fact that our aff is similar to treaties plank checks. "]
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[null,null,"reasonabiltiy"]

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["1NC",null,"2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["Trump will invade Venezuela to distract from the plan—right wing media is already encouraging him to wag the dog to distract from domestic issues.  ",null,"no line that has a link, it is about the shtudown, invasion inevitable, plan doesn't make it likely","kick"]
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["Deploying troops to Venezuela collapses US leadership in the region.  "]
[null,null,"No lash out—North Korea, Mueller Probe, and Cohen investigation all disprove\nCollinson 18 "]
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[null,null,"hardcore Trumpists will never defect---AND, media shields. Drum 18"]

{"sheet":"K","index":5,"n_rows":21,"n_cols":7,"rows_kept":21}
["1NC",null,"2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["The affirmative’s analysis of political structures begins with the law and sees power downstream. When traced to its first premise, this utopian notion, which derives its persuasive force from liberal constitutionalism, is a dangerous tautology: legal norms are valid if they’re valid because they’re valid.",null,"The entire 1AC is an impact turn and a cap sustainable warrant. ","kick"]
["legal blackholes leads to rollback"]
["The alternative is agonistic pluralism – only framing democracy around power and the recognition that the world is violent establishes effective politics "]
[null,null,"Evaluate the plan versus a competitive alternative as a strategy for creating material political projects – any alternative that does not weigh the aff decimates fairness and arbitrarily moots the 1AC "]
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[null,null,"cap solves enviro"]
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[null,null,"vague alts are bad"]
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[null,null,"Legal reform is possible\nBannan ‘16 "]
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[null,null,"perm do both"]
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[null,null,"Cap sustainable, no movements now, and perm do both solves best"]

{"sheet":"Investment","index":6,"n_rows":25,"n_cols":8,"rows_kept":25}
["1AC",null,"1NC","2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["No deal before the truce ends—that causes tit-for-tat retaliation to resume and is the single biggest threat to the US economy",null,null,"Tariff uncertainty decks US ag -- collapse creates a worldwide cascade of food crises; exacerbates tension - thats Kennedy ","one of their cards is bad?","no deal-superficial, trump won't negotiate, no xi, tit for tat","US win trade war now","economy crash now--uncertainty, trump escalation coming"]
["Prolonged tariff uncertainty will kill the US economy – damages investment, business confidence, and has long term knock-on effects. ",{"$nulls":3},"ag deal now--subsidies","long etrm trjaectoris and dfifernet goals mean no deal","congress open to special interests","forcing trump to go through wto is key"]
["The risk of harm is high— even leaving the threat of tariffs on the table sends shock waves throughout the US economy",{"$nulls":3},"deal now resolves this","tarrifss are bad--stats",null,"that's key to structural reforms"]
[" \nThe tariff effect is quantifiable –uncertainty sets negative trade exepctations\n",{"$nulls":3},"alouche 11","diverisonary conflict, no cred, trade expectaitons",null,"their cards don't say any kind of compliance coming"]
["Tønnesson 15, ",{"$nulls":4},"china-us are key",null,"no link-not congress sole authority aff"]
["Tariffs make even mild economic decline irrecoverable – spooks allies and makes cooperation impossible",null,"Trump is willing to compromise-even on campaign promises- eases tensions with EU, China, Canada","won't compromise, specific to china-bryant",null,"collapse on food chain--civil conflict",null,"plan is not key to congress doing shit"]
["Uncertainty destroys American farms\nRushe 8/31",null,null,"plan immediately removes tarrifs that solves","trade cofnlcit doesn't cause war?","doesn't assume farming industry collapse",null,"they don't have an external impact"]
["Disruption in the U.S. go global --- foments civil conflict. ",null,"They give congress the authority to say yes or no to Tariffs- that increases the miscalc- this increases the uncertainty to other countries because there is no guarantee what congress will vote on ",null,"other tarrifs collapse the economy","we increase certainty-wto process and transparncy",null,"happens faster-small shocks, investor freakout"]
[{"$nulls":5},"framing issue--congress has authority to do tarrifs in squo",null,"turns hegemonic decline"]
[null,null,"No impact to US-China trade war\nDayen 17, ",null,"china can't keep up trade war","president has power too-no uq",null,"bad for tech"]
[{"$nulls":5},"congress less likely--they like economy and special interest",null,"quick wars-changes use norms, deterrence, terrirory conflict"]
[null,null,"No broad trade war or escalating protectionism ","yes trade war--recent ev, tit for tat-china is keeping up, us econ slowing down",null,"trump doesn't like china trade",null,"quickly changes perceptions"]
[{"$nulls":4},"CONGRESS Bad","bill card says nothing",null,"escaltae low level shit"]
[null,null,"China can’t keep up tit-for-tat in a Trade War- their heavy reliance on exports will force them to cede to Trump",null,"Requiring congressional approval to results in congress bargaining with the president to extract concessions. ",null,null,"congress isn't more protectionist, we fiat get rid of tarrifs, transparency good"]
[{"$nulls":4},"congress is bad for certainty too"]
[null,null,"Collapse doesn’t cause war\nClary 15\n","ruins cred and detrerence","Congress is more likely to implement tariffs than the president. \nEhrlich 8 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Trump is pro trade \nTheissen 7/26"]
[null,null,"Increasing Congressional control causes runaway protectionism business states with strong special interests drown out local groups","economy is big il, ","A.  More likely. There is no way to predict trump’s decisionmaking – or any president, because they are a sole individual. However our theory for why congress is more protectionist is supported empirically, theoretically, and mathematically. Until congress delegated trade power to the president, congress passed predominantly protectionist legislation "]
[{"$nulls":3},"Status quo is net more protectionist—Congress results in less special interest lobbying","B. Bigger – tariffs passed by congress are larger than presidential tariffs. The president only wants to protect a given category of goods. However, each congressperson has their own set of goods to protect, and when logrolled, the tariff is much larger. Smoot Hawley ended up being so big for a reason. Our tariffs defense extended below also supports this"]
[{"$nulls":3},"doesn't make sense, we don't give sole tarrif authority, wto rules"]
[null,null,"trump funds farms ater tarriffs so no il","capital gains tax inequality alt cause","1. Access point theory proves congressional trade power increases protectionism: it’s easier to sway an institution with hundreds of ins than a single individual. Prefer – it consistently outperforms other theories in predicting liberalism. "]
[{"$nulls":4},"2. Link outweighs the link turn – controlled experiments suggest access points increase likelihood of lobbying three times more than the standard deviation of the variables. \nEhrlich 8 –"]
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[{"$nulls":4},"Congress isn’t a monolith- Reciprocal trade act proves polarization in the legislature would increase uncertainty and deck investment planning"]

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["1AC",null,"1NC","2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["Tariffs are undermining the core of the WTO – everything else can be overcome, but Trump won’t dial down his trade wars",null,null,"Multilat trade good -- strengthens alliances, global network solves international problems, but specialization is key. -- thats lee and Rider.  ","cp solves this","wto resolves 500 disputes--that solves china, intl pressures","wto irrelevant"]
["Trump’s tariffs spark global tit-for-tat retaliation – tariff removal is the most symbolically important commitment to multilateral trade",1,"The US has consistently balked at the WTO- Trump’s threats are nothing new nor do they threaten the WTO","tarriffs fail-long term damage, ","wto irrel--163 countries, solve in the long term, trade deal in squo solves wto cohesion long term","plan staffs wto"]
["And, only multilateral pressure through an invigorated WTO solves Chinese IP theft – bilateral efforts fall prey to the collective-action problem",null,null,"can't leave wto if key to tarriff strategy, we fiat full staffing",null,"liberal order impact"]
["The US-China tech race has existential implications – growing Chinese innovation hijacks deterrence, empowers revisionism, and causes nuclear war.",null,null,"China IP Theft escalates US-China war—tariffs results in economic decoupling, increases arms race between US and china and makes the risk of miscalc high—that’s The Economist"]
["Open trade prevents conflict and decreases arms racing",null,"The global rules-based trade system easily withstands U.S. protectionism---Trump’s temporary "]
["Only multilateral and free trade stops war – interdependence and opp-costs "]
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[null,null,"Trump’s threats to exit the WTO ensure the WTO will remain moot"]
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[null,null,"And Trump will prevent appointees to the WTO Appellate body – makes the organization useless"]
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[null,null,"WTO is resilient but irrelevant\nDrezner 13\n"]
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[null,null,"Steel tariffs have effectively strengthened domestic steel stock and increased domestic production","Their impacts are all industry garbage – all military requirements are less than 1% of domestic steel, shipbuilding capcity is an alt cause "]
[{"$nulls":3},"Tariffs stifle defense innovation "]

{"sheet":"CP","index":8,"n_rows":21,"n_cols":7,"rows_kept":21}
["1NC",null,"2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["WTO should \n-expand Appellate Body member terms to 6-8 years without renewal \n-base judge selection on a consensus-minus-one model\n-set new regulations enforcing anti-dumping\n",null,null,"internal agreement key to make wto better","tarriff authority stil elxists that is uncertainty"]
[null,1,null,"cp staffs the wto","wto can't do anything about it"]
["CP is a multilateral action that strengthens the WTO ",null,null,"WTO enactment of anti-dumping laws prevents Trump from wrecking the appellate body--card","tarriff power is the biggest wto cred--symbol, WTO effectiveness"]
[{"$nulls":3},"we restaff wto--solving internal process is prerreq",null,"trump will drop something in the squo","perm solves-china gets invested in reform"]
[{"$nulls":4},"perm do both-sufficient solve the link or link to nb, they get rid of tarriff","wto needs to strengthen internally","cp doesn't solve uncertianty, get rid of tarrif authority"]
[null,null,"pdb","link to congress bad",null,"stocks are fine now","doesn't check trump fear mongering"]
[{"$nulls":3},"link to trade deal","stocks--trump tweeting economy, held hostage, china retalaition fear","emp denied","their baucus card is really bad"]
[{"$nulls":4},"depression-power predictor-46%, data","other causes"]
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[null,null,"ONLY THE AFF IMMEDIATELY removes tariffs—CP can’t solve either advantage—both are based on antagonizing China and the physical effect of broad-based, unpredictable tariffs. ",null,"condtionality--strategy and education, cross apply and contradtic, intl trading body, one conditional advocacy solves offense","neg flex, abusive plan text, education, interp two conditional options"]
[{"$nulls":4},"one condo solves their shit without contradictions"]
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[null,null,"Conditionailty is a voting issue – skews 2AC strategy, collapses in depth debate – education and advocacy skills – we’re most reciprocal – preserves straight turns, condo lets them contradict then cross-apply, means neg wins every round – neg gets one conditional argument. ","two conditional advocacies, neg flex, test solvency of aff, wonky plan like them defend the wto, default to the status quo"]
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[null,null,"Unilateral tariffs sink the stock market\nWhite 12/19/18 ","Tariffs have led to a deal---deal boosts stocks"]
[{"$nulls":3},"No impact to a stock market decline---we’re overdue for a 5% market correction which wouldn’t change the fundamentals  "]
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[null,null,"Only stock market crashes can cause major depressions---empirical analysis proves---these collapses are especially prone to cause war"]

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["1NC",null,"2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["us china deal coming now",null,null,"The coming US-China Trade deal will open an effective economic dialogue between the two countries, bringing closer economic ties, forcing china to stop stealing US tech, and both countries mutually re-inforcing the WTO. All of these negotiations are happening with the executive branch----forcible turnover to congress results in Chinese backlash ","congresss has power","yes deal--post dates. Solves all the impacts in the debate","deal fails--us won't agree--concessions unenfroceable"]
["congress doesn't like china-escalaates trade war",1,null,"The DA turns the entirety of the case---Morrison ","doesn't give them sole authority","trump is optimistic","steps in line with reform, smokescreen"]
["Trade deal is mutually beneficial to both economies- prevents Chinese tech theft, enforces WTO policies, and establishes framework to settle future disputes- literally solves the entire case ",{"$nulls":3},"graham evidnece is before sueing","drezner--wto irrelevant?","tire trump out, they don't want to make structural changes"]
["Chinese theft undercuts military readiness and overall US hegemony",{"$nulls":3},"trump destroys renegotations","trade deal only way to solve---but why?","us demands are bottomeless pits"]
["Loss of US Heg will lead to the apocalypse",null,"Their link MAKES no sense against this aff—the AFF doesn’t give CONGRESS PERMANENT power over tariffs—just makes it illegal for the president to impose tariffs that violate the WTO",null,"they are being contradoctiroy","china is optimistic about trade talks--card","china surface level reform, they don't know what is being asked of them."]
[{"$nulls":4},"china won't cave to trump-card","bbc takes into account their thing","negotiating strategy is uncertain"]
[{"$nulls":4},"trade deal uncertainty high-their card","even if superficial would solve tarriffs","negotiater has nothing to lose because he is retiring"]
[null,null,"Chinese leaders feel miffed by the US– lightzer and trump keep going back and forth and reneging on deals—tensions are more likely to INCREASE. –that’s Bryan","We’re winning the uniqueness debate---negotiations are ongoing in the status quo---the plan can only hurt them ","trade war is locked in and escalating","heg impact","niceities are eroding, china officials are pissed"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Executive branch-led trade negotiations will lead to a deal- optimism on both sides show they’re inching closing to an agreement",null,"congress sucks","misquoting trump--doesn't mena you are going to have ad eal"]
[{"$nulls":3},"The Trade War has taken its toll on China- internal financial structure forces PRC into submission",null,null,"china is far less likely to agree"]
[null,null,"No china deal—terrible negotiations, Huawei charges, and unilateral nature makes it impossible for China to acquiesce, only WTO solves\nMitchell 1/30  ","Deal! The time for a deal is now- Chinese purchase of US ag products and receptiveness to Trump summit all point to a successful trade agreement but solely negotiations with Trump is key ",null,null,"their 2nr card is also bad--rereading"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Deal coming now- talks will ramp up throughout February- executive negotiating power key"]
[{"$nulls":3},"we post date"]
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[null,null,"Any Chinese concessions under unilateral tariffs are a smokescreen—they’re  an unenforceable, calculated bet that Trump will just give up \nTaylor 1/31 ","econ fundamentals outweigh"]
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[null,null,"aff solves better--Unilateral Tariffs incentivize IP theft– they deck negotiation, harden China’s position, and make SCS conflict inevitable--card ","The status quo proves executive negotiations are effective- the plan only risks ruining the potential of a trade deal---that’s definite due to Congress’ anti-china past","tech industry-bad, price uncertainty"]
[{"$nulls":3},"When they make their “no-link” arg- they fundamentally misunderstand our argument. The link is on Chinese perception---Trump has show he’s willing to negotiate---Congressional ideologues will prevent that conversation with China forcing them to respond with retaliatory actions and accelerate the trade war- that’s Huang ","wto is key--card, marked"]
[{"$nulls":3},"If we win the Uq debate we win the link debate---the fact China is ceding to US demands proves tariffs are effective "]
[{"$nulls":3},"Tariffs are a necessary evil to prevent Chinese technology theft and protectionary policies"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Congress hates China-human rights violations of Uighurs seal the envelop"]
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[null,null,"Tariffs wreck US tech industry – make us less competitive ","theoretical?"]
[{"$nulls":3},"congress hates china?"]
[{"$nulls":3},"they are more protectionist"]
[{"$nulls":3},"heg impact exists"]

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