A federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s efforts to issue a range of tariffs under an emergency powers statute, finding his orders exceeded the authority given to him by Congress.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade found that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 does not allow for “unbounded authority,” finding that the statute could not be used to impose “unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world.”
The panel decided two challenges and described two types of tariffs: worldwide and retaliatory tariffs first announced in an executive order April 2 and trafficking tariffs put in place over numerous orders based on national emergencies.
