The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that most global tariffs issued by U.S. President Donald Trump are illegal and have the potential to remove foreign policy tools widely used by Trump during his second term.
The ruling has affected his “reciprocal” tariffs on Trump on most countries in the world, as well as other tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada.
In a 7-4 judgment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected Trump’s argument that tariffs were allowed under his Emergency Economic Powers Act, calling it “invalidity of a law violation.”
The direct impact of the ruling is unclear. The case is expected to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The court’s ruling on Friday will not give the Trump administration a chance to ask the Supreme Court to file a lawsuit.
Trump has made reasonable tariffs under the International Semark Evanich Powers Act, which gives the president the power to act on “unusual and extraordinary” threats.
Trump declared a national trade emergency, believing that the imbalance is harmful to U.S. national security. But the court ruled that tariffs were not within the president’s mission, and that they were “the core power of Congress.”
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