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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty and Josh Butler

Australia will keep pushing US to drop Trump tariffs after court ruling, trade minister says

US president Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on tariffs on ‘liberation day’ on 2 April
The Trump White House will appeal against a US court ruling that blocks the president’s liberation day tariffs from coming into effect. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Australia will continue to push Donald Trump to abandon his administration’s tariff regime entirely, after a US court blocked the president’s “liberation day” tariffs from coming into effect.

The Manhattan-based court of international trade said the US constitution gives the Congress exclusive powers to regulate commerce with other countries, and ruled that power was not superseded by the president’s self-declared “emergency” he cited to safeguard the US economy.

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