The struggle for President Trump’s tariff continues. The US government has successfully resisted a judicial blockade of its punitive levies – for the time being.
An appellate court has initially allowed US President Donald Trump to continue to collect tariffs as part of an emergency law. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave an urgent application from the US government. She had argued that the question touched national security. The court wants to continue examining the case. The parties are asked to submit further statements, it said.
On Wednesday, the court for international trade in New York classified large parts of the tariffs imposed by Trump against trading partners all over the world as illegal. A three -member judge came to the assessment that Trump had exceeded his powers with his extensive tariffs.
The decision referred to almost all tariffs issued by Trump’s government. It includes the penalty taxes that the Republican had imposed on the “Day of Liberation” he described in early April. At that time he ordered so -called mutual tariffs, which he founded with the trade deficit of the respective trading partner – but temporarily resolved them because of the descent at the financial markets.
At the same time, he imposed universal tariffs of ten percent that affect almost all over the world. Certain tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China are also affected. If the decision was a big setback for Trump’s aggressive trade policy, the order of the Court of Appeal is now a first success for the US president – but not final.
The legal dispute over this is likely to take the way through the instances. It is also not the only ongoing legal dispute over Trump’s tariffs.
Government criticizes judicial Abuse of power
The White House had reacted to the first decision with sharp criticism. The judges of the commercial court “shamelessly misused their judicial power to seize President Trump’s decision,” said Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt in the US capital Washington.
Trump’s justification for the introduction of the high tariffs is “legally flawless” and is based on common sense, she claimed. The government spokeswoman also optimistic to win the case in court.
