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US appeals court rules Trump’s foreign tariff campaign is largely illegal

Activists in Kolkata, India, burn an effigy of US President Donald Trump on August 13 in reaction to steep tariffs placed on the country [Bikas Das/AP Photo]

A United States appeals court has declared President Donald Trump’s blanket tariff policy illegal, but it stopped short of pausing the wide-ranging import taxes altogether.

On Friday, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, largely upheld a decision in May that found Trump had overstepped his authority in imposing universal tariffs on all US trading partners.

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