Federal trade court blocks Trump's emergency tariffs, saying he overstepped authority
(NPR) A federal court on Wednesday struck down many of the tariffs Trump imposed this term, including sweeping worldwide tariffs that unsettled consumers and sent stock markets plummeting.
The judgment from the Court of International trade rules the tariffs Trump imposed on April 2 on most countries are illegal. Trump already moved to temporarily scale those tariffs back to 10 percent. The ruling also strikes down separate tariffs Trump imposed on China, Canada, and Mexico, which the administration justified as a reaction to fentanyl trafficking.
In their ruling, the court's three-judge panel wrote that Trump's worldwide tariffs had exceeded his power under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, or IEEPA, which the Trump administration cited in imposing those tariffs.
"Because of the Constitution's express allocation of the tariff power to Congress…we do not read IEEPA to delegate an unbounded tariff authority to the President," the court wrote.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/g-s1-69479/federal-trade-court-trump-tariffs-emergency-powers-law
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