Admittedly, I have a bias because I hate tariffs and I am not a lawyer, but I think I agree with the court. The Executive Branch does not have the power to arbitrarily impose tariffs in the Constitution and the notion that we have an economic emergency is dubious, at best. I certainly wouldn’t want a Leftist president to declare an economic emergency and make all kinds of sweeping arbitrary decisions and I don’t want Trump doing it either. Yes, this means that Congress needs to get off their asses, but that’s how our government was designed.
A federal court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority with his reciprocal tariffs, dealing a blow to a major tenet of the president’s economic agenda.
A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 law that Trump invoked to justify the tariffs, does not actually give the president the power to unilaterally implement the sweeping duties.
“The Worldwide and Retaliatory Tariff Orders exceed any authority granted to the President by IEEPA to regulate importation by means of tariffs,” the judges wrote in their ruling.
“The Trafficking Tariffs fail because they do not deal with the threats set forth in those orders,” they continued.
Dow futures jumped 400 points Wednesday on news of the ruling.
Implementing tariffs typically requires congressional approval, but Trump chose to bypass Congress by declaring a national economic emergency, and using the purported emergency as justification for invoking the tariffs on his own.
The Trump administration swiftly appealed the ruling Wednesday.
“Foreign countries’ nonreciprocal treatment of the United States has fueled America’s historic and persistent trade deficits,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement after the order.
“These deficits have created a national emergency that has decimated American communities, left our workers behind, and weakened our defense industrial base – facts that the court did not dispute.”
China’s investment in our government is really paying off for them.
So, we must pay more through other countries tariffs by international trade law. But everyone else in the world gets to pay less by the same laws?
At least it’s fair in liberal view, so 45% of Americans are happy to keep the trade deficits and budget spending high enough to finish bankrupting the country.
T. This isn’t about how much or who does and doesn’t like them. This is about who has the power to create them and for what reasons.
Most tariffs are dumb.
Yah. Hamilton and Lincoln were really stupid guys.
Yes. Compare the economy to hundreds of years ago.
Well Hamilton and Trump both cheated on their wives. So they have that in common.
Ummmnnhh….”the economy” is exactly the point. But you miss the point often, as a loyal Lefty. You should try actually thinking about the US not having the capacity to build military equipment UN-aided by overseas-manufactured components, or the US un-able to manufacture medicines domestically.
Trump and Lincoln both suffered gunshot wounds, too. But you have a fixation on sex-lives, JV. Any reason for that?
>Well Hamilton and Trump both cheated on their wives. So they have that in common.
Well Hamilton, Clinton, and Trump both cheated on their wives. So they have that in common.
Fixed that for you, funny how you left one out.
Ahem..….you forgot Kennedy and Biden.
Well if commander TACO actually followed through on a majority of these we could actually see the ramifications.
There are things tariffs can help protect, but the blanket ones are idiotic.
the blanket ones are idiotic.
Oh, really?
You plan on paying off the national debt with your own MasterCard, JonnyV?
Nothing wrong with having other countries (especially Canada and NATO) pay into that account. After all, the US taxpayer paid for their defense–nearly in its entirety–for 50+ years.
In the alternative, just give us your credit card.
Heh. Less than 24 hrs later…
The judgments and the permanent injunctions entered by the Court of International Trade in these cases are temporarily stayed until further notice while this court considers the motions papers – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 5/29/25
>T. This isn’t about how much or who does and doesn’t like them. This is about who has the power to create them and for what reasons.
Most tariffs are dumb.
Who is dumber, the country that imposes tariffs or the country that pays them with no answering tariffs? Because basically you just called all but a handful of foreign countries dumb, and Trump is just trying to be as dumb as most other countries in the interest of slowing the hemorrhaging of dollars leaving the country through unfair tariffs against the US. See, I don’t think you understand the true meaning of dumb or stupid in this context.
Most of the largest tariffs against us were in treaties from WWII, the Korean war and the Vietnam war meant to help rebuild their countries. They were meant to help the countries rebuild, not prop up their regimes in perpetuity. They should have been gone long before now, but who wants to give up their ‘dumb’ free income and the US has let them get away with it. Tariffs are dumb. Reciprocal tariffs are smart, fair and equitable. Aren’t libs pro-equality? I thought they believed they were party of equity even though that is demonstrably false. This is a case in point. Lib leaders and their followers don’t want equity, they want to thwart everything Trump does. I honestly believe Trump could have Republicans put forth a bill that would reinstate Roe v Wade, called Trump and all women v. the people and Libs would be against it because it has Trump’s name on it and he would get the credit. If a non-lib proposes it, lib leaders and their followers are against it, no exceptions. THAT is dumb.