Trump Global Tariffs Deemed Illegal, Blocked by Trade Court

Bloomberg – no paywall: “The bulk of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the US trade court, dealing a major blow to a pillar of the Republican’s economic agenda. A panel of three judges at the US Court of International Trade in Manhattan issued a ruling Wednesday siding with Democratic-led states and a group of small businesses that argued Trump had wrongfully invoked an emergency law to justify some of his levies. Trump can appeal the ruling. The US Supreme Court may ultimately have the final say in the high-stakes case that could impact trillions of dollars in global trade. The decision is one of the biggest setbacks in court for Trump amid a wave of lawsuits over executive orders in which he is testing the limits of presidential power. Others are challenging Trump’s mass firings of federal workers, restrictions on birthright citizenship and efforts to slash federal spending already approved by Congress…”

The cases are V.O.S. Selections v. Trump, 25-cv-00066, and Oregon v. Trump, 25-cv-00077, US Court of International Trade (Manhattan).