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Updated February 22, 2026 \u2014 10:49am,first published 3:44am<\/p>\n

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Washington: US President Donald Trump says he will raise his new global tariff to 15 per cent, just a day after ordering a 10 per cent worldwide tariff, following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to strike down his previous system of \u201creciprocal\u201d import duties.<\/p>\n

Trump announced on social media on Saturday (Washington time) that \u201cbased on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday\u201d, he would lift the new tariffs to 15 per cent, effective immediately.<\/p>\n

\"USUS President Donald Trump said he would hike his global tariff to 15 per cent.AP<\/p>\n

The new tariff is due to begin on Tuesday (Washington time), and lasts for 150 days. It replaces the old system under which imports from Australia had a 10 per cent tariff – effectively the lowest of any country.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s post on Truth Social did not indicate any exemptions for countries with which the US enjoys a trade surplus, such as Australia. He said the 15 per cent rate would apply to countries worldwide, \u201cmany of which have been \u2018ripping\u2019 the US off for decades, without retribution\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cDuring the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs, which will continue our extraordinarily successful process of Making America Great Again – GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for more information. The revised text of the order was not yet available.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Supreme Court struck down Trump\u2019s \u201creciprocal tariffs\u201d announced last April on what the president called \u201cLiberation Day\u201d.AP<\/p>\n

There was no immediate response from the Australian government overnight, but it has consistently opposed Trump\u2019s tariffs on Australian goods, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called \u201cnot the act of a friend\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s latest move comes a day after he raged at the Supreme Court\u2019s decision<\/a> to strike down his previous system of so-called reciprocal tariffs applied at differing rates using presidential emergency powers.<\/p>\n

Trump exceeded his authority as president by doing so, the majority ruled in a 6-3 verdict, as \u201cCongress alone\u201d has the power to raise revenue by imposing permanent tariffs.<\/p>\n

The new tariffs use a different mechanism \u2013 Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 \u2013 which allows the president to impose tariffs of up to 15 per cent for 150 days to address urgent balance-of-payments concerns. Commerce Department data showed the US ran a trade deficit of about $US900 billion ($1.27 trillion) last year.<\/p>\n

However, the lawyer who successfully argued the case against the tariffs before the Supreme Court, Neal Katyal, called into question the legality of the new tariffs, too. He pointed out the Department of Justice told the court that trade deficits were \u201cconceptually distinct\u201d from balance-of-payments deficits.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf [Trump] wants sweeping tariffs, he should do the American thing and go to Congress,\u201d Katyal wrote on X after the president announced the 15 per cent hike. \u201cIf his tariffs are such a good idea, he should have no problem persuading Congress. That\u2019s what our Constitution requires.\u201d<\/p>\n

In any case, the new tariff would have to be extended by Congress after 150 days. Trump has also instructed the Office of the US Trade Representative to begin formal trade practices investigations, with a view to expanding sectoral tariffs on certain products, such as steel and aluminium.<\/p>\n

Those were unaffected by the Supreme Court ruling, which only examined the \u201creciprocal tariffs\u201d imposed via emergency powers.<\/p>\n

\"\u201cI\u201cI get a feeling the American people won\u2019t see it,\u201d Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said of $US175 billion in tariff revenue already collected.AP<\/p>\n

On Friday, Trump called a snap news conference following the court\u2019s verdict, where he criticised the court\u2019s \u201cterrible\u201d and \u201cdeeply disappointing\u201d decision, which he also claimed was \u201cdefective\u201d and legally incorrect.<\/p>\n

The president was particularly scornful of the two justices he appointed in his first term who ruled against the tariffs, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, whom he accused of disloyalty. Trump continued to rage on Truth Social, his social media platform, later in the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened today with [Gorsuch and Barrett], whether people like it or not, never seems to happen with Democrats,\u201d he posted. \u201cThey vote against the Republicans, and never against themselves, almost every single time, no matter how good a case we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump heaped praise on Brett Kavanaugh, his 2018 appointment to the bench, who dissented from the majority opinion along with conservative justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s verdict has also prompted calls for billions of dollars in tariff revenue to be returned to corporate America and small business importers who bore the brunt of the cost. The US Chamber of Commerce is among the business groups calling for \u201cswift refunds\u201d, while California Governor Gavin Newsom demanded the president return every dollar \u201cwith interest\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Trump said the matter would likely have to be litigated in court, potentially for years, and chided the Supreme Court for not issuing a ruling on refunds.<\/p>\n

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, asked in an interview about the fight for $US175 billion in improperly collected revenue, said bluntly: \u201cI get a feeling the American people won\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Amid the fallout from the court\u2019s decision on Saturday (Washington time), Trump said he was withdrawing his endorsement of Jeff Hurd, who was among six Republicans in Congress who supported a resolution earlier this month to repeal Trump\u2019s tariffs on Canada.<\/p>\n

The decision to retract an endorsement underlines Trump\u2019s depth of feeling about his tariff regime, and what is at stake for Republicans who fail to support it.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongressman Hurd is one of a small number of Legislators who have let me and our Country down,\u201d Trump wrote on social media. \u201cHe is more interested in protecting Foreign Countries that have been ripping us off for decades than he is the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"MichaelMichael Koziol<\/a> is the North America correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He is a former Sydney editor, Sun-Herald deputy editor and a federal political reporter in Canberra.Connect via X<\/a> or email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated February 22, 2026 \u2014 10:49am,first published 3:44am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-495813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}