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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jem Bartholomew

First Thing: Federal court blocks Trump from imposing ‘illegal’ sweeping tariffs

Donald Trump, below a portrait of Ronald Reagan, in the Oval Office on 28 May.
Tariffs typically need to be approved by Congress but Trump has so far bypassed that requirement by claiming that the country’s trade deficits amounted to a national emergency. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Good morning.

A federal trade court has ruled Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs regime illegal, a dramatic twist that could block the president’s controversial global trade policy.

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