Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday that he was going to ask the Supreme Court to decide quickly after a Federal Appeals Court considered Friday that he did not have the power to establish a large part of the customs tasks established since his return to the White House.
“We are going to resort to the Supreme Court, I think tomorrow (Wednesday) because we need a quick decision,” the US president told the press of the Oval office, and added that he had asked about an “accelerated procedure.”
A prerogative of Congress?
On Friday, a Federal Court of American Appeals judged that Donald Trump did not have the power to establish a large part of the tax on imported products that he has implemented since his return to power in January. According to the text of the sentence, “the law grants the president of important powers to take a certain number of measures in response to a declared national emergency situation, but none of these measures explicitly includes the power to impose customs tasks and other taxes,” prerogative of the Congress.
However, these customs duties remain in force, the time for the Supreme Court to examine the case. The White House accused the judges of having made this decision for political reasons, adding the decision. From his return to power in January, Donald Trump has implemented, in several waves, a new surcharge in products that enter the United States. These vary from 10 to 50% depending on situations and countries.
These are these customs tasks, different from those that surprise in particular sectors (automotive, steel, aluminum, copper), which are in the heart of the legal conflict. The case was examined for the first time by the United States International Commercial Court (ITC) that he had estimated at the end of May that Donald Trump had superimposed his powers by imposing an un directed surcharge, after complaints presented by several democratic states and a coalition of small businesses.
Donald Trump repeated on Friday to say that putting an end to customs tasks “would be a complete disaster for the country”, which would be “destroyed.” The government is particularly concerned with losing an important pressure lever in its commercial partners. The fear of exorbitant customs tasks has pushed many of them, including the European Union, to refrain from reprisals and open its market more to US products.
Source: BFM TV
