It is a serious setback for Donald Trump’s commercial offensive. On Wednesday, a Federal Court blocked the “reciprocal” customs tasks of the American president “of the US president, accused of” overcome “his powers by imposing these surcharges in the world in early April.
In their decision, the judges of the United States International Commercial Court consider that Donald Trump could not invoke the Economic Emergency Law to establish these customs tasks. This law allows the White House tenant to “take the necessary economic sanctions in case of emergency to fight an ‘extraordinary and unusual threat,” the shot recalled. However, the judges believe that this “emergency” could not be characterized in this case. Consequently, the increase in customs tasks should have been validated by Congress.
This decision refers to all “reciprocal” customs duties decided by Donald Trump about products from dozens of countries such as China, Canada or EU countries. On the other hand, the specific surcharge in cars, steel or aluminum are not affected, since they were imposed within the framework of another law.
The White House Counterattack
With this decision, the United States government in theory has ten days to suspend its customs duties, according to CNBC. But the White House that immediately appealed this decision before the United States Court of Appeals does not intend to be done.
A Trump administration spokesman denounced “not chosen judges” who “do not have the power to decide how to adequately administer a national emergency.” According to him, “the unrecognized treatment of foreign countries to the United States has fed historical and persistent commercial deficits in the United States.”
“However,” these deficits have created a national emergency that decimated the US communities, our workers and weakens our industrial defense base, of the facts that the Court has not played. “
“All this is far from finishing”
Donald Trump is still far from losing the battle. Because there are still appeals and could be in the end The United States that will have to decide. And “even if the Supreme Court confirmed the blockade of customs tariffs, this would not necessarily mean the end of customs tariffs of imported goods,” he estimates with CNBC Jack Slagy, trade expert and founder of Nexint Global.
With the BBC, John Leonard, a former senior official of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency in the United States indicates that there will be no changes in the rules and that customs tasks should always be paid. But if all appeal courts confirmed the initial decision, companies that have had to pay the surcharge will receive a refund.
Source: BFM TV
