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what the court actually said about Trump’s tariffs
It rejected the idea that using tariffs to create diplomatic pressure or negotiating leverage alone could count, since that would justify nearly anything, making the law’s requirement irrelevant. International Emergency Economic Powers Act §202.4 Any authority granted to the President by section 203 may be exercised to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat. The most important older legal decisions the court points to were in cases brought by a company called Yoshida International against broad tariffs imposed by the Nixon administration.
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