US President Donald Trump
The decision comes after the Supreme Court dealt a severe setback to the White House in one of its main economic and foreign policy tools.
The President of the USA, Donald Trumpannounced this Saturday that it intends to increase the new global tariff from 10% to 15%one day after the Supreme Court overturned his tariff policy, which was one of the hallmarks of his governance.
“Based on an exhaustive, detailed and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written and extraordinarily un-American Tariffs decision issued yesterday, after MANY months of reflection, by the Supreme Court of the United States, this statement serves to represent that I will, with immediate effect, increase to World Rate 10% on countries to the maximum level of 15%fully permitted and legally tested”, Trump na Truth Social.
The announcement comes less than 24 hours after Trump invoked the Section 122 of the Commerce Act of 1974, which allows the president to impose tariffs of up to 15% to respond to a “large and serious deficit on the scale of payments”, and this measure may be in force for a maximum of 150 days, unless Congress authorizes an extension.
No US president has previously invoked Section 122.
By immediately raising the rate from 10% to 15%, Trump exhausted the margin maneuver provided for in this diploma. Any new increase will require a different legal mechanism or a Congressional intervention.
On Friday, the US issued a 6-3 decision to apply tariffs under the International Emergency Economics Powers Act (IEEPA).
The US Supreme Court decision focuses on so-called “” applied in April 2025 to most countriesas well as other fees decreed based on a 1977 law which allows the President to regulate imports in situations of national emergency.
O Supreme Court, conservative majority, decided by 6 votes against 3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) used by Trump “does not authorize the president to impose tariffs“.
Trump again held that the high court had approved the appeal to Section 122 and other avenues to which it says it intends to resort. Although Friday’s judgments mentioned these possibilities, the majority of the court explicitly stated that was not deciding under what circumstances It would be legal to operate them.
Trump He also previewed new measures on tariffswriting in Saturday’s publication that, in the coming months, his administration will “determine and issue the new legally permitted Tariffss”, although it is not clear how it intends to do so.
“” has been a fundamental instrument of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, who adopted the motto “America first“.
In December, the US trade representative, Jamieson Greersaid that the administration had a long list of prepared plans for the scenario in which the high court overturned the tariffs.
“We have been thinking about this plan for five yearsor more,” Greer said. “You can be sure that when we went to talk to the president at the beginning of his term, we had many different options,” he added, stressing that IEEPA was the “best tool,” but insisting that there are other ways to apply tariffs.
A White House briefing note released on Friday announcing the initial 10% tariff included a list of exemptions similar to the fares considered illegal on Friday, covering products from sectors such as energypharmaceutical, automotive, aerospace, among others.
