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{"sheet":"China DA","index":0,"n_rows":16,"n_cols":7,"rows_kept":16}
["1NC",null,"2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["Taking away tariff authority makes a deal impossible and makes any deal unenforceable",null,"China is already declining without tariffs—growing debt, capital flight, and reliance on bad credit\nMichael Schuman, 1-17-2019"]
["Chinese economic revisionism through tech transfer and IP theft crushes international security by undermining American dominance in emerging technologies.",1]
["The decline of American tech leadership causes nuclear Armageddon",null,"Section 301 is not Section 232 – aff isn’t messing with China specific tariffs – we’ll insert this chart"]
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[null,null,"Turn – China justifies its IP theft on the basis of national security.  Plan is the only chance of ending IP theft"]
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[null,null,"Spillover of the national security justification means China justifies IP theft and data security restrictions"]
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[null,null,"China can’t displace the US as the hegemon – too many barriers. ","concede"]
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[null,null,"Only ending tariffs on allies will create a unified approach to resolve Chinese "]

{"sheet":"Solvency","index":1,"n_rows":3,"n_cols":8,"rows_kept":3}
["1AC",null,"1NC","2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["Congress will reject tariffs—it is bipartisan to remove them\nJosh Barro 18"]
["**The plan strengthens congressional trade leadership—that forces presidential compliance"]

{"sheet":"Adv 3","index":2,"n_rows":3,"n_cols":8,"rows_kept":3}
["1AC",null,"1NC","2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
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{"sheet":"ESR CP","index":3,"n_rows":27,"n_cols":7,"rows_kept":27}
["1NC",null,"2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["The President should issue a binding unilateral directive declaring that it will not impose import based trade restrictions based on national security justifications. ",null,"Reject the CP – exec is object of the resolution, begs the topic question of how to handle a rogue president, rollback is normal for Trump, non-POTUS executive action solves their offense, reject team for fairness and education."]
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[null,null,"Perm do both – shields the link because there is no disagreement between the executive and congress"]
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[null,null,"Perm do the aff and have the executive implement"]
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[null,null,"Can’t solve econ—uncertainty about tariffs is what is driving the collapse. Industry doesn’t know if they can trust Trump word—same with allies—Boomer "]
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[null,null,"Markets don't trust the CP – they'll wait for a more certain and credible statement, like from Congress"]
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[null,null,"Can’t solve trade—only statutory changes can bring us in line with international law and prevent collapse, broad executive trade power collapse the global trade system causes instability—Petersmann"]
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[null,null,"Can’t solve congressional leadership impact—doesn’t give congress sole authority, that’s key to their national security power"]
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[null,null,"All executive orders are reviewed by the OLC for their form and legality"]
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[null,null,"CP lacks legal grounds – it wrecks OLC cred & solvency 4 ways – reject compliance fiat as abnormal means question begging – links to net benefit"]

{"sheet":"Pressure CP","index":4,"n_rows":14,"n_cols":7,"rows_kept":14}
["1NC",null,"2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["Presidential tariffs are effectively driving China to the negotiating table. The CP’s clarification of negotiating principles makes coercive trade tools effective—produces negotiations that even the playing field between Chinese and US tech firms.",null,"pdb"]
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[null,null,"pdcp"]
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[null,null,"Aff doesn’t end any of the tariffs referred to on the CP"]
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[null,null,"CP text doesn’t talk about 232 or national security"]
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[null,null,"Condo bad – skews 2AC time and strategy, moving target, not reciprocal, dispo solves"]

{"sheet":"t-restrictions","index":5,"n_rows":20,"n_cols":7,"rows_kept":20}
["1NC",null,"2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["That’s key to limits—they allow the attachment of conditions to executive power, like wait times, Congressional reporting, cabinet approval, or international consultation. That unlocks the topic and weakens links to generic DAs—expands the neg research burden and undermines the development of creative, in-depth strategies. ",null,null,"Topical affs must prohibit the exercise of one of the listed executive powers. ","We meet - we are denying the pres unilat power over 232- all of your args are qs of solve "]
[null,1,null,"First, limits—their interp allows a plethora of minor conditions to be attached to presidential actions. That could include mandatory wait times, Congressional oversight, approval by Cabinet secretaries, judicial review, and mandated binding consultation with international allies, any amendment to the Atomic Energy Act. Now multiply that by 5 for each topic area.","Counter-interp: Restrict means a limiting condition- is in the context of trade- should be preffed"]
[{"$nulls":3},"That’s hopelessly broad, and it means we can only keep up by cutting generics that link to everything, which distances every debate from the core of the topic and produces less engaging rounds. ","no sub or nearly all"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Narrowing our interpretation of the topic stem is key to sustainable limits given the wide-ranging breadth of the list areas. “Executive power” is poorly defined and generally broad, so the size of the topic is mostly dependent on how broadly we read the word “restrictions.”","They kill aff ground – they overlimit to 5 affs because this ahould apply to all sub areas- reason all or nearly all,"]
[{"$nulls":4},"no solvency advocates because no one advocates for restricting an entire area or all power and every aff would lose to small PICs that don’t completely prohibit – also makes the research they want to avoid inevitable"]
[null,null,"w/m- we are denying the pres unilat power over 232","They don’t meet – they don’t prohibit the executive from exercising congressionally delegated trade power – they amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require countries that do not already possess enrichment capabilities not to acquire them.","lose to pics"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Functional limits check – ESR and midterms, base, and politics are strong versus every AFF"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Reasonability – no answer race to the bottom- your interps are also arbrit there is no distinction- endless T debates crowd out substance"]
[null,null,"Counter-interp: Restrict means a limiting condition- not just prohibition – only our interp is in the context of trade","intent to define "]
[{"$nulls":3},"outright prohibito"]
[null,null,"Both their interps are arbitrary – kills aff predictability and ground – also limits don’t matter if they are unpredictable","No overlimiting—years of legal study could occur just about congressionally delegated trade power including things like tariffs, overturning deference, and eliminating presidential treaty power, and we let in even more than that. Our interp doesn’t just limit to one aff per area—there are multiple statutory and judicial mechanisms for prohibiting deference, for example, and the AFF still gets tons of different advantages about the future of the American political system. That’s the best middle ground—we include a few affs per area, and they let in dozens per area."]
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[null,null,"They kill aff ground – they overlimit to 5 affs, which don’t have solvency advocates because no one advocates for restricting an entire area or all power and every aff would lose to small PICs that don’t completely prohibit – also makes the research they want to avoid inevitable"]
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[null,null,"Functional limits check – ESR and midterms, base, and politics are strong versus every AFF"]
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[null,null,"Reasonability – competing interps cause race to the bottom, crowd out substance","Reasonability is bad, all the reasonable interpretations put together is too unlimiting, and it’s too arbitrary and inconsistent to enforce a meaningful limit on the topic. "]

{"sheet":"Oil DA","index":6,"n_rows":22,"n_cols":7,"rows_kept":22}
["1NC",null,"2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["Tariffs keep oil prices below $80",null,null,"Tariffs cause a spike in Global Oil Prices – above 80$ kills Indian growth and soft power. Indian Ocean instability IS THE MOST likely way the world ends – it’s where tensions are highest + draws in the US and China. Indian soft power is key – only way to ensure stable communication and prevent hair trigger alert","oil prices are rising now","they can't win straight turn--oil prices are rising, no impact to china econ, theere will be tariffs, 301, cx and stuff"]
["Prices above $80 crush Indian growth",1,null,null,"no card that says trade war key to 80","they can't solve china perception, demand etc."]
["Growth key to Indian soft power - solves regional instability \nSridharan 17 ",{"$nulls":3},"Oil prices will continue to rise – bullish US markets and low inventory\nJude Clemente 3-18-2019"]
["Indian Ocean wars are likely and will escalate - India’s role is key to prevent it\nGamage 17 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Turn – Spillover of the national security justification means China justifies IP theft and data security restrictions\nBNA, 2018\n"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1ac hanke ev"]
[null,null,"Rises will continue now – Putin, Russia, OPEC production reduction ","no quant data","Only ending tariffs on allies will create a unified approach to resolve Chinese "]
[{"$nulls":3},"Oil will stay below $80 because of the expectation of long sustained tepid global growth - particularly because of Chinese demand - OPEC just cut its demand forecast for 2019 for the 4th consecutive month - demand is the key lever in determining prices. ","china economy screwed that has nothing to do with tariffs"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Trade war is weakening Chinese oil demand, driving a supply glut that crushes prices around the globe"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Prices low because of lost demand - that drives OPEC decisions\nKool 11/13/18 "]
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[null,null,"No impact to Indian soft power\nMukherjee 14 (","It will quickly go nuclear. The threshold for use is uniquely low there \nBrewster 15 "]
[{"$nulls":3},"Price volatility guts major oil economies - only dampening the effect is key. \nGreenberg 16 "]
[{"$nulls":3},"intl perception and region"]
[{"$nulls":3},"dropped link arg--traders will do poorly"]
[null,null,"Saudi Arabia massively cutting exports to prop up prices","effect opec price seting"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Possibility of trade tensions holding down oil prices "]
[{"$nulls":3},"China trade tensions prevent oil prices from spiking\nDaiss 3/17 "]
[null,null,"Oil prices are high and demand growth and specific supply outages, like Venezuela will keep them growing.","*Even a ramp up in supply won’t matter when demand is low AND OPEC won’t agree"]

{"sheet":"Economy","index":7,"n_rows":16,"n_cols":8,"rows_kept":16}
["1AC",null,"1NC","2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["Trade war sparks uncertainty which wrecks investment and slows global growth, and triggers Fed “inflation surprise” that kills spending and stocks",null,null,"Trade war causes uncertainty in the market causes Trump lash out and nuclear war—risk of auto tariffs will wreck the economy, kills US-Japan relations—causes Asian war and world draw in. Trade war risks US dollar heg—key to worldwide hegemony—causes power imbalances and nuclear war","doesn't live on exports, only6% cuts","trdae war uncertianty lashout nuke war","uncertainty magnitude is not that big","uncertainty in the market causes mpx"]
["Markets cooling now—but risk of new auto tariffs would collapse the market, signal distrust in new trade deals, and further degrade alliances",{"$nulls":3},"Uncertainty doesn’t undermine serious metrics of economic growth\nCastelnuovo 17","clary assumesm rational actors",null,"us-russia war=extinction"]
["Uncertainty is the biggest risk of recession—won’t know until it’s too late",{"$nulls":4},"uncertainty inev broadly, but auto tarrifs are distinct?",null,"market uncertainty is the biggest il"]
["Trump will impose auto tariffs—only have until May at the latest to stop him",null,"Economic growth is high and resilient despite significant trade policy uncertainty\nCochrane 18","not high-uncertainty biggest recesion","Endogenous economic and political factors make economic uncertainty inevitable – increasing scale of government activity, polarization, institutional dyamics, uncertainty related to real and financial variables – Dima. ","inflation something",null,"edeleman won't waaste anytime"]
["Auto tariffs would cause larger economic impact than the whole trade war combined",{"$nulls":3},"Plenty of factors make economic uncertainty inevitable—and monetary policy just adds to the policy instability\nHusted et al 17","bad for econ and japan",null,"belarus incident is on the brink"]
["Continuing trade war will fracture US-Japanese alliance—risks nuclearization of the region",null,"No conflict from downturn \nClary, 15 ","trump, no conciltiroy policy",null,"something about ollar hegemoyn"]
["tan 15",{"$nulls":4},"not about the auto indsutry"]
["Economic conditions are the same as during Smoot-Hawley, continuing trade protectionism will collapse the global economy",null,"No nuclear war in Asia—\nKampani and Gopalaswamy 17—","indo pak--arms race japan prolfi","US auto industry is dead – tariffs not key\nIsidore 12/17/18 ","question of uncertainty?"]
["US economic decline means global hotspot escalation – causes great power war",{"$nulls":4},"dollar heg key to heg-bargaining, coercion countries"]
["US dollar heg has remained despite debt and trade issues—but is on the brink",{"$nulls":3},"clary"]
["Trade war risks US dominance—reduces reliance on US dollar and financial system",null,"China will use blockchain currency to replace the dollar inevitably\nET 3/22 ","timeframe"]
["US dollar strength key to heg",null,null,"bottom card disproves","No nuclear war in Asia – strategic and institutional stability prevents escalation – faith in multilateral institutions disprove nuclear pessimism – Kampani and Goapalaswamy."]
["kagan 17",null,"Dollar heg resilient – no impact\nLong 15 ","not resileint, 2015, financial instiutitons"]
["starr 17",{"$nulls":3},"Dollar heg is resilient – structural checks mean there is no viable alternative, it’s empirically survived times of decline – Long. "]
[null,null,"No auto tarriffs – no impact.\nLaing 3/22 ","xxxx"]

{"sheet":"Trade","index":8,"n_rows":13,"n_cols":8,"rows_kept":13}
["1AC",null,"1NC","2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["And, 232 tariffs are collapsing relations with our allies, especially the European Union.",null,null,"Tariffs collapse relations with EU and break international law, that collapses the WTO—statutory changes and ending tariffs on allies will help revitalize it. WTO key to solve AMR—controls direction of all impacts and causes extinction. Congressional trade power key to foreign power—resolves Lashkar terror which provokes Indo-Pak escalation and Belaruse skirmish which causes US-Russia war.","Eu is collapsing","bad for allies","trade power fails--congressi s not going to take charge of things, executive could just do it well or credibility inev dneied, congress is too big, no agility, can't respond to fo po"]
["Trade alliance with the EU also motivates the coordinated diplomacy necessary to revitalize the WTO",1,null,null,"trump is thumping the wto","not going for wto impacts","no terrorism--walt"]
["Statutory changes are key to bring the US into conformity with international trade rules which resolves violations of WTO obligations",{"$nulls":3},"no impact to AMR","working with EU","grid argument is new"]
["Broad interpretation of executive tariff authorities blurs the line between economic and national security, which unravels the global trading system",{"$nulls":3},"no impact to terrorism--walt 13","resolves china stuff?","we ansewred the internal link to it"]
["WTO governance frameworks are key to preventing existential AMR threats—it’s a threat multiplier",null,"EU collapse inevitable","plan is sufficent to solve EU","they don't solve congressional restrictions","congressional trade power necessary to solve gpw?","warming destors the grid"]
["AMR is an existential threat, it’s nonlinear, and has an invisible tipping point",{"$nulls":4},"terrorism?"]
["Congress must be “first-mover” – the alternative is that the Executive will continue to view them as “field lieutenants” in their army – viewing Congress with a sense of independence is key ",null,"Interdependence doesn’t solve war ","inter d solves war--xxx",null,"indo pak relations"]
["Delegating Section 232 authority to the president destroys “collective” power of Congress.  This generates collusion and polarization—collapsing democracy.",{"$nulls":4},"the card doesn't implicate our innternal links"]
["Plan restores Congress via ITS “invitation to struggle” – key to all warrants",null,"Trump thumps wto","rhetoric doesn't collapse wto",null,"not specific"]
["Tariff legislation spills over  mckeon 19",null,null,"plan sovles",null,"mckeon ev--cyber secrutiy and grid--card"]
[{"$nulls":5},"meltdown causes extinction hoffman"]
[{"$nulls":3},"something causes war--card"]

{"sheet":"Adv CP","index":9,"n_rows":11,"n_cols":7,"rows_kept":11}
["1NC",null,"2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
["The United States federal government should\n- Substantially increase subsidies for United States automakers;\n- Reaffirm its commitment to Japan’s security by commitng to defend Japan against China and withdrawing marine presence from Okinawa;\n- Reaffirm its commitment to NATO* and the collective defense of Europe in the Balkans and with missile defense; \n- appoint and reappoint relevant members of the appellate body of the WTO**;\n- adopt the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s recommendations to combat antimicrobial resistance.\n",null,null,"does stuff","not going for wto impacts","sufficency framing","pdb"]
[null,1,null,"sufficinecy framing","perm not competitive","subsidy automakers solve certainty","why do they solve econ?"]
[{"$nulls":4},"doesn't resolve congress","reaffimrs japan security","deficit--new auto tariffs"]
["Solves EU relations",{"$nulls":3},"doesn't resolve econ--tariffs","withdrawing okinawa--this is what japan cares about","legrain evidence"]
[null,null,"pdb","links to da's","links to net benfits-casuse infighting","reaffirm nato commitment","auto tariffs"]
[{"$nulls":5},"sufficien to solve russia","resolve that market uncertainty"]
[null,null,"Cross apply strait times on this CP—EU can’t be resolved without a removal of tariffs and end to future tariffs","doesn't say japan cares about trade war",null,"judges solve wto flexibility?","trust trump something"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Marine presence is eroding the alliance - reducing the burden on Okinawa is key to the effectiveness of relations  ",null,"perm--cp doesn't trigger authority fight, that is the only ptix link","they don't have a card about nato and russia"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Appointing judges is a key impediment to WTO dispute resolution – failure to appoint means the US can infinitely stonewall complaints",null,"new arg"]
[null,null,"New 232 investigation of Japanese titanium forthcoming—wrecks trade deal","solves amr--Guidos ’11 ("]

{"sheet":"infra ptix","index":10,"n_rows":33,"n_cols":8,"rows_kept":33}
["1AC",null,"1NC","2AC","2NC","1AR","2NR","2AR"]
[null,null,"Infrastructure bill coming now, it solves warming – it’s going to include massive resilience and warming solutions",null,"Climate change causes extinction—causes mass environmental devastation, exacerbates risk of conflict escalation and resource wars. Conceded that infrastructure bill solves ALL warming—massively increases your risk calc of the DA.  ","Mckeon congress is key to solve CC","competitiveness is key--infra is key, suseptible to atatacks--cobly","no bill--last week, congreses can't agree on anything"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Turns trade—Destroys trade routes; resource scarcities poision WTO negotiations. Warming magnifies risk of virulent disease outbreaks and makes nuke theft more likely. ","net neutrality, mueller","bigger econ il-stimulus, consumer confidence, jobs, correlets with growth","dems will push liberal shit that won't pass"]
[null,null,"Trump leadership is key to pass",null,"Turns econ—causes massive uncertainty that makes trade war look likea d rop in the bucket. Results in larger and more suddent autotariffs, means no aff solvency. ","aff is faster and bigger il to economy","climate change tie bereak---extinction","would get watered down and not solve climate change"]
[{"$nulls":5},"no bill currently","resrouce wars, bad for econ"]
[null,null,"Restricting executive authority ruins agenda focus ― spills over pv 8",null,null,"dems won't use infra bill to solve climate change?","risk calculas--turns trade--routses and poisongs wto negotiations","link--millions of thumpers"]
[{"$nulls":6},"ocean acidificaiton, oxygen","venezuela, mueller, net neutrality"]
[{"$nulls":5},"grid collapse is bad for infra","infigithing ineffective"]
[null,null,"Unchecked warming causes nuclear war and magnifies every geopolitical impact ","warming d","resource wars",null,"can't focus on the grid","just a question of economic spending, market uncertaint"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Climate change causes extinction and turns the econ and terror impacts\nPachauri & Meyer 15 (","trump is hurting bipart now--venezuela","scott evidence--speculative, misquites interview, ","not a turn to the affirmative"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Independently—CO2 emissiosn turns disease \nJackson 08 ",null,"gas tax is unpopular","mckeon 1ac-congresess more poweer on trade solves climate change"]
[{"$nulls":6},"but other stuff solves warming","econ collapse means no bills"]
[{"$nulls":6},"UQ debate"]
[{"$nulls":3},"No bill has been introduced, no funding mech has been established, and congress can’t even agree on what to use the bill for—their UQ cards are hyped","adaptation and mitigation provisions",null,"1. trump works with congress"]
[{"$nulls":4},"close to spending fights",null,"bridge"]
[{"$nulls":4},"frecking 2-6",null,"congress is hopeful"]
[{"$nulls":4},"It’s the top priority---but legislative-executive cooperation is key.",null,"insiders--inra is biparitan"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Strong support from both aisles despite the shutdown AND a split Congress, BUT it’ll be a tough push because of spending fights.",null,"top priority--infra fertile gorund, bipart possible"]
[{"$nulls":6},"bipartisanship--xxx"]
[{"$nulls":4},"The $200 billion is a floor not a ceiling – experts say its enough to solve.\nBush, Geddes, and Mortimer 1-8. ",null,"infra is being pushed?"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Infrastructure will pass now ---new leadership, there’s a narrow window to get it through, and strong bipartisanship makes it top of the agenda---that’s Halsey and Joselow "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Democrats and Trump coming together to pass now ",null,"venezual thumper is really old"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Momentum now, but must come together quickly to pass – political capital is critical\nMulero 3/4 [",null,"venezuela crisis--dems and gop uniquely aggree"]
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[{"$nulls":3},"net neutrlaity thumps"]
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[{"$nulls":3},"includes a gas tax","Gas tax part of the bill won’t pass\nZanona 5-16 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"we have bigger il to economy"]
[{"$nulls":4},"infra solves comp"]
[{"$nulls":3},"that wrecks the economy","transit leaders something"]

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