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Firm Posture & In-House Response

Tariff volatility is becoming a contract-management problem

The section 122 dispute shows why legal teams need live inventories of tariff clauses, refund-entitlement provisions, customs entries and protest deadlines.

BY GEOPOLITICS DESK · MAY 28, 2026 · 1 MIN READ

The section 122 dispute shows why legal teams need live inventories of tariff clauses, refund-entitlement provisions, customs entries and protest deadlines. The firms best positioned to advise clients will be those that connect trade counsel, litigation, tax, supply-chain, finance and contract-management teams before disputes over pass-through costs become relationship problems.

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