Trump to hike global tariffs to 15% from 10%, 'effective immediately'

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Source: CNBC

Published Sat, Feb 21 2026 11:23 AM EST Updated 13 Min Ago


President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would increase global tariffs to 15% from 10%, one day after the Supreme Court struck down his “reciprocal” tariffs. The new tariffs will be “effective immediately,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

“I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been “ripping” the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level,” he wrote.

In his social media post, Trump also warned that additional tariffs would follow. “During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs,” he wrote.

While Trump’s announcement claimed that the new tariffs will take effect without delay, it is unclear if any official documents have been signed detailing the timing. A White House fact sheet issued Friday said the original 10% tariffs would go into effect on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 12:01 a.m. ET. The White House did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/21/trump-tariffs.html

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Published Sat, Feb 21 2026 11:23 AM EST Updated 3 Min Ago


President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would increase global tariffs to 15% from 10%, one day after the Supreme Court struck down his "reciprocal" tariffs. The new tariffs will be "effective immediately," Trump said in a Truth Social post.

"I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been "ripping" the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level," he wrote.

In his social media post, Trump also warned that additional tariffs would follow. "During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs," he wrote. The White House did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment.

The increase comes after the Supreme Court on Friday, in a 6-3 tariff ruling, decided that Trump wrongfully invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to implement his levies.

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Trump to boost global tariffs to 15% from 10%, 'effective immediately'


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[mdbl]

1. Too bad the Casino Stock Market isn't open today

I would have liked to see the reaction.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Boosting tariffs 50% within 24 hours.

Will the price of coffee go down?

[Cheezoholic]

3. NOBODY wants or will do business with or in the US because Dawg knows what the Mad King will do tomorrow n/t

[sop]

4. Looks like Trump decided to ignore the SC ruling.

Who's going to stop him?

[drray23]

5. he did not.

He is using another statute that the one they struck down. This one is capped at 15% max and only for 150 days. It also has other requirements that are likely not met so it will be challenged again.

[SunSeeker]

11. What requirements has he not met? It sounds like we're stuck with them for at least 150 days.

https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-trumps-tariffs-could-survive-the-supreme-court-ruling

Which could explain why the Dow did not jump much with the Supreme Court ruling, and is now below 50,000.

[drray23]

15. Its supposed to be used to correct large trade imbalances

However he issued a blanket tariff amongst all countries, many of which do not have trade imbalances.

[SunSeeker]

17. But the statute requires the tariff to be the same across all countries.

So all he has to do is claim a an emergency trade imbalance with just some countries, not all of them.

[drray23]

18. Still does not work.

See the recent OP about that:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221037751

[SunSeeker]

19. Ah, why didn't you say so! It's not the blanket nature of it, the problem is it doesn't apply to trade deficits!

It applies to "balance of payments" imbalances, which is not the same thing! Thanks for the link to LetMyPeopleVote's excellent OP!

[twodogsbarking]

6. This will force Americans to buy products made in the United States that aren't made in the United States.

Have I made myself clear.

[EarlG]

7. As I heard pointed out last night

Trumps previous rationale for using tariffs was that it would give him leverage to use against other countries to create better trade agreements. But since these new tariffs expire after 150 days, they can’t be used in that way. So this is basically just a 15% tax hike on Americans.

[Lovie777]

8. shithole did say he can destroy the USA.....

[Jacson6]

9. President CHAOS strikes again. N/T

[ashredux]

10. He's like a small child who's told he cannot do something

And of course, he has to go right out and do it to show you that he can do anything he wants…. And he’ll stamp his foot and yell at you.

[Hope22]

12. He can't stop stealing from us. Nt

[generalbetrayus]

13. Don't worry, by Monday he will have reduced them 5,000 percent.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Why Trump's Section 122 Tariffs Are Illegal

trump's new replacement tariffs are illegal. These tariffs can only be used when there is a balance-of-payments deficit which is very different from a balance of trade deficit. Since the US is no longer on a currency fixed exchange rate there have not been any balance of payment deficits for a couple of decades. These tariffs will be challenged and trump will lose again

Fascinating National Review post on Trump's latest Tariff gambit. Archive link here (it's pay walled, please don't give them money lol)

archive.is/r4Xdf

— Rude Law Dog (@esghound.com) 2026-02-21T19:01:57.437Z

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trumps-section-122-tariffs-are-illegal/

In Section 122, Congress endowed the president with narrow, temporary authority to impose tariffs “to deal with large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits” (emphasis added). What Trump is complaining about — something he insists is a crisis but is not — is the balance of trade, not of payments. The United States does not have an overall balance of payments deficit, much less a large and serious one.

A trade deficit between the U.S. and a foreign nation occurs, mainly in connection with goods (which is just one aspect of international commerce), when imports are greater than exports. This is not really a problem for a variety of reasons — e.g., a trade deficit results in an investment surplus, the U.S. is a major services economy and often runs exported services surpluses that mitigate the imports deficit in goods, etc.

The balance of payments is a broader concept than the balance of trade. It accounts for all the economic transactions that take place between the United States and the rest of the world. Even without getting into every kind of transaction that entails, suffice it to say that foreign investment in the United States, coupled with the advantages our nation accrues because the dollar is the world’s reserve currency, more than make up for the longstanding trade deficit in goods.

Our overall payments are in balance. There is no crisis.

It’s vital to understand why Section 122 was enacted. There was a financial crisis in the late 60s and early 70s under the Bretton Woods system, when the dollar was tied to gold. Foreign countries that held dollar reserves could exchange them for gold at a fixed rate. Meanwhile, our government was spending at a high clip due to the Vietnam War and Great Society programs. This and the obligation to pay out gold put enormous pressure on the dollar. In response, in 1971, President Nixon severed the dollar’s tie to gold and — as several justices recounted in Friday’s Learning Resources opinions — imposed a temporary 10 percent import surcharge (a tariff) to stabilize the economy......

There is no rationale under Section 122 to impose tariffs. Because President Trump has no unilateral authority to order tariffs, he must meet the preconditions of Section 122 to justify levying them. He cannot. Not even close.

[twodogsbarking]

20. Reminds me of when The Three Stooges were in a leaking boat and drilled a hole to let the water out.

Yuk, yuk