U.S. President Donald Trump has moved swiftly to reassert his trade agenda after the Supreme Court struck down his previous worldwide tariffs, condemning the decision and announcing a new 10 percent tariff on all imports effective immediately.
Trump criticised the court as “disloyal” and made clear he would not abandon tariffs, long central to his economic strategy, pledging to pursue an “even stronger” approach despite the ruling that he exceeded presidential authority by imposing sweeping import taxes without congressional approval.
The decision invalidated last year’s broad “Liberation Day” tariffs but left open alternative legal pathways, which Trump now appears prepared to use as he presses ahead with renewed global levies aimed at reshaping US trade policy and protecting domestic industry.
Experts note Trump still has several legal mechanisms under existing trade laws to reimpose import duties through alternative authorities. The ruling restricts how tariffs can be introduced, but does not prevent the president from pursuing new trade measures using different legal pathways.
LOL! SCOTUS’s ruling basically said Trump was using the wrong law for his tariffs, so Trump just issued the same tariffs under different laws and increased them by 10%.
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The SCOTUS essentially ruled that the “International Emergency Economic Powers Act” somehow doesn’t give the president economic powers. Apparently it does something else that’s too complicated for the rest of us mere mortals to understand.
Sounds like the same kind of legal brilliance we’ve come to know from the courts here in NZ.
Whatever advances globohomo and f*cks the citizens over as much as possible. Corruption at every level.
The judiciary in America wasn’t set up to be loyal. It was set up to prevent the abuse of power.
Unless this is accompanied by significant tax cuts for US based consumers this is really a tax increase for most people as the tariffs are passed on to end consumers. The assumption people will “buy USA” depends on whether that’s a realistic option. The US has shed its industrial base in favour of outsourcing a long time ago.
Good! Wish we had strong leaders in New Zealand, yeah nah is mighty boring!
So impose tariffs but don’t rework the tax system entirely. How is that “strong leadership”?