The future of Donald Trump tariffs, One of the pillars of the economic agenda of the president of the United States and the economies of all its commercial partners, including Spain, is already In the hands of the Supreme Court, that will decide on your legality by rapid route.
The Court, in a decision that was anticipated, announced on Tuesday that it accepts the government’s request to study the Constitutionality Of most of the encumbrances, that two lower courts had declared illegal.
The magistrates have given Until September 19 to the parties to present all the necessary documentation for the case and have set the calendar the NOVEMBER WEEK For the oral view
The case
In the center of the case are both generic tariffs ofl 10% that Trump put all the imports that arrive in the US like the ones he called as “reciprocal”, As well as those imposed To Mexico, Canada and China supposedly as punishment for not fighting fentanyl traffic. In all these cases the president wielded the alleged authority granted by the Law of Economic Powers in case of International Emergency of 1977.
He International Trade Court in May And 10 days ago one of appeals ruled the illegal taxes because they considered that the president could not impose them appealing to that law. The Cortes, however, left them in force while the process progressed.
The Supreme, where from Trump’s first presidency a Super conservative majority Of six judges in front of the three progressive, he has been giving numerous victories to the president since the Republican returned to the Oval Office in January.
Trump says that the US will live an economic collapse if his tariffs are annulled and has come to say that he will become a “Third World Nation.” Even if the Supreme Court, challenged in a case initially raised by five small businesses and several Democratic states, could impose them again looking
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