Trump, tariffs and U.S. Steel
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President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January determined to overturn decades of American policy and build a tariff wall around a U.S. economy that used to be pretty much wide open to foreign products.
Trump officials are back in court pushing to save the president's sweeping reciprocal tariffs. Here’s what’s at stake as the legal battle intensifies.
The White House on Thursday lashed out judges who've ruled against President Donald Trump's global tariff policy -- a key part of his second-term agenda.
The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that Trump doesn't have the authority to impose sweeping global tariffs under an emergency-powers law.
A hostile and political act.” Those were the words White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt used in a late April briefing to discuss something Amazon was reportedly considering. A new line item at the website’s checkout might show customers how much the price of any given item was being increased by Leavitt’s boss,
The rulings against the levies in two federal courts – the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. -- centered on Trump's unprecedented invocation of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act as a legal justification for tariffs.
President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products.
For a White House that has grown accustomed to a rollercoaster of legal rulings, judicial decisions over the past day throwing President Donald Trump’s tariff plans into question landed like a bombshell.
The U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday struck down tariffs imposed on virtually every country by President Donald Trump, ruling that he exceeded the authority granted to him under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett argues tariff legalities won't quell three potentially finalized trade deals that are awaiting President Trump's signature.