The president of the United States declared himself “deeply disappointed” by the sentence, and noted that they will resort to other laws to achieve their objectives.
Defiantly, President Donald Trump announced this Friday the 20th a new general tariff of 10% following a ruling by the United States Supreme Court that ruled that he had exceeded his authority by imposing customs duties as if it were a national emergency.
The government will now resort to other laws, mainly the commercial code approved in 1974, to continue taxing all imports, Trump said a few hours after the Court’s setback, with a conservative majority.
Trump declared himself “deeply disappointed” by the ruling, and directly accused some judges of the Court of being subject to “foreign interests.”
The Republican, who has based much of his foreign policy on a series of tariffs that vary as he pleases, acknowledged, however, that it is not clear whether he will have to repay the money collected so far, in the order of $140 billion in 2025, according to specialists.
That aspect “was not addressed by the Court,” Trump lamented to reporters, and now litigation before the courts could last “years.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who dissented from the majority opinion (6 to 3) of the Court, warned that this legal process could be a “disarray.”
Champion of the motto “America first,” Trump did not acknowledge any error or haste in using the weapon of tariffs, which the Supreme Court recalled is in the hands of Congress.
The mistake was made by the six magistrates who voted against, for “politically correct” reasons, he asserted.
*Also read: Supreme Court annuls Trump’s tariffs amid warnings of an economic “disaster”
The United States Supreme Court ruled against the so-called “reciprocal” tariffs imposed indiscriminately by the Donald Trump Administration on more than a hundred countries. The 170-page resolution concludes that the Executive abused the Emergency Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) by using it widely to dictate trade policy.
The ruling focuses exclusively on levies approved under the 1977 Law, affecting the majority of rates directed at strategic trade partners, as well as those applied to China, Canada and Mexico. However, the Court clarified that this decision does not affect all commercial taxes, therefore, specific rates on aluminum or automobiles are left out of this ruling.
With information from AFP
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