Locked tariffs: Trump has no authority to impose rates on other countries

Decision of a federal commercial court. At issue a 1977 Emergency Powers, which does not authorize the use of tariffs.

It is a hard setting for the so -called imposed by Donald Trump: the famous tariffs to other countries were locked.

A federal commercial court prevented On Wednesday the US President to impose tariffs based on an emergency law-through which he has announced tariff measures against the vast majority of business partners.

It is thus defined that Donald Trump has no authority to impose tariffs on other countries under an emergency law.

This court order suspend 20% tariffs on China, 25% of Mexico and Canada, and the universal rate of 10% on imported products. It does not move 25% rates on automobile, steel and aluminum products (because they were not applied under the emergency law).

The decision of a panel of three judges came after several judicial proceedings that claim that Trump exceeded his authorityleft the US commercial policy dependent on its Caprichos and triggered the economic chaos.

At least seven processes are to answer Tariffs, Trump’s central part of the Trump trade policy, reported the Associated Press (AP) agency.

Tariffs usually have to be approved by the US Congress, but Trump claims to have the power to act because the country’s trade deficits represent a national emergency.

The Republican imposed tariffs on most countries in the world at any given time, which shook markets.

The authors of the processes argue that the 1977 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Law does not authorize the use of tariffs.

Even if this happened, the Commercial deficit does not comply with the legal requirement that an emergency is triggered Just for an “unusual and extraordinary threat,” they still argue.

A White house already reacted. Will present resource, It should extend the battle in court, and accuse the judges of not being elected by the people – unlike President Donald Trump.

The US has a commercial deficit with the rest of the world for 49 consecutive years.

Since returning to the White House (presidency) in January, Trump has announced tariff measures against the vast majority of US business partners, some of which were suspended temporarily until July 9, due to the negative reaction of the markets.

Measures in force include 25% tariffs on steel, aluminum and its derivatives, 25% on imported cars and certain car parts, along with a 10% base rate applicable to all their business partners.

To the European Union (EU), this 10% rate may increase to 20% After the end of the current United States break in July.

Following the imposition of customs rights, the United States has already celebrated business agreements With the UK and China to reduce rates and increase access to these markets.