US President Donald Trump’s second attempt at an almost global tariff package risks the same fate as the first: failing due to a lack of a legal basis. After the reciprocal tariffs announced on Liberation Day in April of last year were finally repealed by the Supreme Court this year, a US court has now also overturned the successor regulation, which provides for global import tariffs of ten percent. This means that a customs chaos is almost perfect, because in the trade dispute with the EU there are also threats in other areas and decisions are still open. What happened, what applies – and what no longer applies? An overview.
