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US President Donald Trump has used tariffs against both friends and adversaries since returning to office (Mandel NGAN) \u00b7 Mandel NGAN\/AFP\/AFP <\/p>\n US President Donald Trump has used tariffs against both friends and adversaries since returning to office (Mandel NGAN) \u00b7 Mandel NGAN\/AFP\/AFP <\/p>\n
President Donald Trump raised the global duty on imports into the United States to 15 percent on Saturday, doubling down on his promise to maintain his aggressive tariff policy a day after the Supreme Court ruled much of it illegal.<\/p>\n
Trump said on his Truth Social platform that after a thorough review of Friday’s “extraordinarily anti-American decision” by the court to rein in his tariff program, the administration was hiking the import levies “to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level.”<\/p>\n
Shortly after the court’s 6-3 ruling that rejected the president’s authority to impose tariffs under a 1977 economic emergency powers act, Trump had initially announced a new 10 percent global levy by invoking a different legal avenue.<\/p>\n
At the same time, he launched an extraordinary personal attack on the conservative justices who had sided with the majority, slamming their “disloyalty” and calling them “fools and lap dogs.”<\/p>\n
The ruling was a stunning rebuke by the high court, which has largely sided with the president since he returned to office, and marked a major political setback in striking down Trump’s signature economic policy that has roiled the global trade order.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s announcement is sure to provoke further uncertainty as Trump carries on with a trade war that has cajoled and punished countries, both friend and foe.<\/p>\n
It is the latest move in a careening process that has seen a multitude of tariff levels for countries sending goods into the United States set and then altered or revoked by Trump’s team over the past year.<\/p>\n
The new duty by law is only temporary — allowable for 150 days. According to a White House fact sheet, exemptions remain for sectors that are under separate probes, including pharma, and goods entering the US under the US-Mexico-Canada agreement.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the White House said US trading partners that reached separate tariff deals with Trump’s administration would also face the new global tariff.<\/p>\n
– High court defeat –<\/p>\n
Friday’s court ruling did not impact sector-specific duties Trump separately imposed on steel, aluminum and various other goods. Government probes still under way could lead to additional sectoral tariffs.<\/p>\n
But it nevertheless marked Trump’s biggest defeat at the Supreme Court since returning to the White House 13 months ago.\u00a0The court has generally expanded his power.<\/p>\n
Trump heaped praise on the conservative justices who voted to uphold his authority to levy tariffs — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump nominee — thanking them “for their strength and wisdom, and love of our country.”<\/p>\n
The president alleged the majority of six justices, including two nominated during his first term, had been “swayed by foreign interests.”<\/p>\n
“I think that foreign interests are represented by people that I believe have undue influence,” he said.<\/p>\n
Shares on Wall Street — a metric closely watched by Trump — rose modestly Friday after the decision, which had been expected.<\/p>\n
Business groups largely cheered the ruling, with the National Retail Federation saying this “provides much-needed certainty” for companies.<\/p>\n
In court arguments, the Trump administration said companies would receive refunds if the tariffs were deemed unlawful. But the Supreme Court’s ruling did not address the issue.<\/p>\n
Trump said he expected years of litigation on whether to provide refunds. Kavanaugh noted the refund process could be a “mess.”<\/p>\n
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