{"id":369,"date":"2025-05-29T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:15:49","slug":"court-strikes-down-most-of-trumps-tariffs-but-appeals-court-hits-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/court-strikes-down-most-of-trumps-tariffs-but-appeals-court-hits-pause\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Strikes Down Most Of Trump\u2019s Tariffs, But Appeals Court Hits Pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-Tariffs-1024x576-1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<ul>\n<li>The United States Court of International Trade has struck down most of Trump&rsquo;s tariffs.<\/li>\n<li>The court determined the IEEPA doesn&rsquo;t give the president &ldquo;unbounded authority.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li>A 25% tariff remains on cars and automotive parts as it was justified under another law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Update:<\/strong> While we all sit tight for the Supreme Court&rsquo;s verdict, a federal appeals court has decided to hit the brakes on the lower court&rsquo;s ruling that tossed out most of President Trump&rsquo;s tariffs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/29\/blocked-trump-tariffs-trade-court-appeal.html\">CNBC<\/a> reports that this temporary pause gives the administration some breathing room to contest the decision. The court also gave the US a week to respond, with the government getting its turn to reply by June 9, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-placement\">\n<div id=\"82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tvar adpushup = window.adpushup  = window.adpushup || {que:[]};<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tadpushup.que.push(function() {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tif (adpushup.config.platform !== &#8220;DESKTOP&#8221;){<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t} else {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t});<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The United States Court of International Trade normally flies under the radar, but it burst into the spotlight yesterday by determining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">President Trump<\/a> exceeded his authority by applying broad tariffs worldwide &ndash; even on uninhabited islands.<\/p>\n<p>While there&rsquo;s a lot to unpack, the court determined &ldquo;The Constitution assigns Congress the exclusive powers to &lsquo;lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,&rsquo; and to &lsquo;regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.&rsquo;&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>They also found that Trump&rsquo;s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) does not confer &ldquo;unbounded authority&rdquo; to &ldquo;impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world.&rdquo; Given this, it&rsquo;s not surprising to learn the tariffs challenged in the lawsuit were ordered to be put aside.<\/p>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article-thumbnails-organic\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/2025\/03\/trump-to-hit-all-non-us-made-vehicles-with-25-tariff\/\">Trump Imposes Sweeping 25% Tariff On Non-US Made Cars And Parts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While that&rsquo;s the gist of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cit.uscourts.gov\/sites\/cit\/files\/25-66.pdf\">50 page ruling<\/a>, the court went on to say &ldquo;The Worldwide and Retaliatory Tariff Orders exceed any authority granted to the President by IEEPA to regulate importation by means of tariff.&rdquo; This is because they &ldquo;do not deal with the threats set forth in those orders.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-529-2.jpg\" data-type=\"inarticle-image-block\"> <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazy \" src=\"\" alt=\" Court Strikes Down Most Of Trump&rsquo;s Tariffs, But Appeals Court Hits Pause\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-529-2-1024x683.jpg\" data-type=\"inarticle-image\" \/><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>        <\/a>  <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">White House<\/h4>\n<p>This sets up another showdown as the Trump administration has reportedly filed an appeal. The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tariffs-trade-court-0392dbd59f548e49ad4f64254ae3f94a\">Associated Press<\/a> reports the &ldquo;Supreme Court will almost certainly be called upon to lend a final answer,&rdquo; so that means the question of tariffs could be decided by a court that leans to the right.<\/p>\n<p>While the ruling shot down a number of tariffs, it didn&rsquo;t get rid of all the ones imposed by President Trump. Notably, the 25% tariff on imported cars and parts remain in effect as the administration used the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The AP says it&rsquo;s a similar story with steel and aluminum tariffs, so automakers are still under pressure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-placement\">\n<div id=\"9b1169d9-7a89-4971-a77f-1397f7588751\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"> <\/div>\n<div id=\"bb7964e9-07de-4b06-a83e-ead35079d53c\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"> <\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tvar adpushup = window.adpushup  = window.adpushup || {que:[]};<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tadpushup.que.push(function() {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tif (adpushup.config.platform !== &#8220;DESKTOP&#8221;){<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;bb7964e9-07de-4b06-a83e-ead35079d53c&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t} else {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;9b1169d9-7a89-4971-a77f-1397f7588751&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t});<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-529-1.jpg\" data-type=\"inarticle-image-block\"> <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazy \" src=\"\" alt=\" Court Strikes Down Most Of Trump&rsquo;s Tariffs, But Appeals Court Hits Pause\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-529-1-1024x683.jpg\" data-type=\"inarticle-image\" \/><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>        <\/a>  <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">White House<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ad-placement\">\n<div id=\"9b1169d9-7a89-4971-a77f-1397f7588751\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"> <\/div>\n<div id=\"bb7964e9-07de-4b06-a83e-ead35079d53c\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"> <\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tvar adpushup = window.adpushup  = window.adpushup || {que:[]};<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tadpushup.que.push(function() {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tif (adpushup.config.platform !== &#8220;DESKTOP&#8221;){<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;bb7964e9-07de-4b06-a83e-ead35079d53c&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t} else {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;9b1169d9-7a89-4971-a77f-1397f7588751&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t});<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Court of International Trade has struck down most of Trump&rsquo;s tariffs. The court determined the IEEPA doesn&rsquo;t give the president &ldquo;unbounded authority.&rdquo; A 25% tariff remains on cars and automotive parts as it was justified under another law. Update: While we all sit tight for the Supreme Court&rsquo;s verdict, a federal appeals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.midborodocuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}