A group of states and companies used the Trump administration’s own statements against them while urging a federal appeals court to pause the sweeping new tariffs on dozens of countries.
The Thursday filings at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit come as the Trump administration seeks to keep the tariffs in place while a challenge to their legality plays out in the courts.
The Trump administration has told that appeals court that there are irreparable national security and economic harms from a lower court ruling, which found the tariffs exceed a president’s power under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 and blocked them. The lower-court ruling covered certain tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China and the minimum 10 percent worldwide tariffs as well as higher country-specific tariffs scheduled for the summer.
