A U.S. federal court blocked President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs that slapped steep hikes on goods from dozens of foreign countries.
The New York-based Court of International Trade ruled on Wednesday that the president overstepped his authority in issuing the wide-ranging tariffs under emergency authority. The court said that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to regulate commerce with foreign countries, not the president.
The court effectively dissolved all tariffs Trump put in place using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 law that had never been used to implement tariffs until Trump.
“The question in the two cases before the court is whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (‘IEEPA’) delegates these powers to the President in the form of authority to impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every…
