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Most of Trump’s tariffs are illegal, federal court rules -- “ALL TARIFFS ARE STILL IN EFFECT!” wrote Trump, in post accusing the appeals court of political bias


Trump found to have overstepped authority with tariff policies as president accuses court of political bias

Many of Trump’s steep tariffs are “are unbounded in scope, amount and duration”, the ruling added, and “assert an expansive authority that is beyond the express limitations” of the law his administration has leant on. And on Friday, the appellate court ruled: “It seems unlikely that Congress intended, in enacting IEEPA, to depart from its past practice and grant the president unlimited authority to impose tariffs.” In a statement, White House spokesman Kush Desai said that Trump “lawfully exercised the tariff powers granted to him by Congress to defend our national and economic security from foreign threats”.

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