Appeals court upholds ruling rejecting sweeping Trump tariffs

The economy-wide tariffs Donald Trump imposed on nearly every U.S. trading partner are illegal, a federal appeals court said Friday, August 29.The International Economic Emergency Powers Act does not give the president the power to impose tariffs, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a 7-4 decision upholding a May decision from the U.S. Court of International Trade ...

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