An alliance of twelve US states challenged Wednesday 23 of the Justice of Avrilen the customs duties imposed by Donald Trump, because his Democratic officials believe that the president could not institute them without the agreement of the Congress.
The group includes Arizona, Oregon, New York and Minnesota. He takes care of a tactic launched by California, which brought a similar procedure last week.
Since his return to power, Donald Trump has eliminated global scholarships by questioning decades of free trade.
Trump, “the US economy sank into chaos”
Notably caused a commercial war with China and established customs duties of 10% in the products of dozens of countries around the world. It also threatens to establish other much more punitive taxes.
But according to the legal action launched on Wednesday, the 1977 law invoked by the Republican billionaire does not allow it to use emergency measures to impose customs rights, a power that the US Constitution attributes to Congress.
“By claiming the power to impose considerable and constantly evolving customs duties of all products that enter the United States, for any reason that deepens convenient to declare as an urgency, the President has changed the constitutional order and has plunged the US economy in chaos,” details the complaint, presented before the United States International Commercial Court.
Donald Trump ensures that his protectionist policy will cause industrial production in the United States.
But in the immediate future, it especially creates much uncertainty and runs the risk of translating in an increase in consumer prices and the loss of jobs, according to many economists.
The “worst goal against your camp”
“No matter what the White House affirms, customs duties are a tax that will be transmitted to consumers,” said Kris Mayes.
Last week, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, had assimilated the customs duties of Donald Trump to the “worst objective against his camp in the history of this country.”
The Democrat also accused Donald Trump of having “betrayed” his voters, such as farmers, particularly affected by the commercial war with China.
Unpopular in certain surveys, the president’s economic policy has become a privileged angle of attack for democratic opposition in recent days, after weeks of hesitation.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump tried to reassure by drawing a calm with Beijing: the surcharge of 145% inflicted on Chinese imports will ultimately decrease in substantially, “according to him.
Source: BFM TV
