White House officials are already plumbing the depths of the U.S. legal code to find ways to get around judicial orders and carry out President Donald Trump’s plan to impose massive import taxes on goods from nearly every country on the globe.
On Wednesday, the U.S. International Trade court struck down Trump’s use of emergency powers to put tariffs on nearly every nation around the globe and also struck down the tariffs imposed on Mexican, Canadian and Chinese imports by the president with the stated aim of combatting fentanyl and drug trafficking from those countries.
