striking down<\/a> the main batch of levies.<\/p>\n\u201cI think it opens up the possibility for us to challenge, or for others to challenge, the softwood lumber national security tariffs that we\u2019ve been facing,\u201d Eby said. \u201cObviously, it\u2019s early days, but certainly if that\u2019s available to us, we will pursue it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The court decision strikes down the tariffs that U.S. President Trump had implemented using a 1970s-era emergency powers law. Other tariffs imposed on national security grounds remain, including those on softwood lumber and aluminum. Trump also pledged to implement 10 per cent global tariffs using other powers.<\/p>\n
Eby said the province had retained a U.S. law firm for advice when tariffs were first introduced, and may look at how it can aid companies in fighting the remaining tariffs.<\/p>\n
He said that this type of work is normally done directly by the federal government, but there may now be options based on the court decision for the province to work with individual companies.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of those tariffs are, in my opinion, as a result of this decision today, potentially open for challenge, and courts seem willing now to review the president\u2019s decisions in these areas,\u201d Eby said.<\/p>\n
B.C. Conservative Leader Trevor Halford welcomed the news of the court decision, acknowledging the real threat posed by these trade policies, but said Eby and others now need to stop blaming this situation for the province\u2019s economic situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NDP can\u2019t keep using global turmoil and Donald Trump as a blanket excuse for deficits that are driven by their own habit of irresponsible spending,\u201d Halford said in a written statement. \u201cB.C. needs a plan for growth; they don\u2019t need the same tired excuses from this NDP government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B.C. may aid in legal action against remaining U.S. tariffs after court decision: Eby Published 3:09 pm Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-489712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}