US President Trump promises new tariffs, slams Supreme Court decision
Al Jazeera
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s emergency tariffs, but he plans to invoke other laws to maintain and raise tariffs.
United States President Donald Trump slammed the US Supreme Court as a “disgrace” after a 6-3 ruling struck down his sweeping global tariffs, stating that he will maintain the levies through alternative means.
The president went on to announce on Friday that, despite the top court’s decision, he would impose a 10 percent global tariff for 150 days to replace some of his emergency tariffs that were struck down by the court.
The duties would be over and above tariffs that are currently in place, specifically the sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminium, auto parts and a few others. The new 10 percent tariff would go into effect in about three days.
Trump called the court’s liberal justices a “disgrace to our nation” and denounced the conservatives who sided with them as “unpatriotic and disloyal” to the US Constitution.
The court ruled, in a 6-3 decision, that Trump cannot use emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from countries worldwide without the consent of Congress.
