The US Federal Trade Commission has blocked the tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on April 2, according to several media outlets, including Reuters and CNN.
According to CNN, the decision removes several of the tariffs that have been imposed on foreign goods in the US. This includes a basic tariff of ten percent that was imposed in April on goods from most countries when they are exported to the US. This also applies to the 30 percent tariff imposed on Chinese goods and the 25 percent tariff on some goods from Mexico and the United States.
According to CNN, the decision does not apply to 25 percent tariffs that have been imposed on cars, steel and aluminum.
A panel of three judges finds that Donald Trump has exceeded his authority by imposing a general tariff on imports from countries that sell more goods to the United States than they buy.
In the United States, tariffs on imported foreign goods typically must be approved by Congress.
However, Donald Trump has claimed that he also has the authority to impose new tariffs, arguing that the United States' trade deficit constitutes a national emergency. The Federal Trade Commission does not agree.
- An unlimited delegation of the power to impose tariffs would be an inappropriate transfer of legislative power to another part of the government, the panel wrote in a statement according to AFP.
The judges conclude that any interpretation of the law that "delegates unlimited authority to impose tariffs is unconstitutional".
The Trump administration appealed the case a few minutes after the decision from the Trade Commission.
- The legal coup is out of control, writes Trump's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, in a post on X on Thursday night.
Since Donald Trump was sworn in as president in January, he has presented tariffs against almost every country in the world.
At home, Dansk Industri believes that the court's decision is good news for Danish companies, but the tariff war is far from over:
- The punitive tariffs on However, the 25 percent tariffs that Trump has imposed on steel and aluminum as well as cars and car parts remain in place, so the trade war is by no means over.
- Trump will probably try to take measures in a number of other areas, so companies will have to continue to sleep with their boots on, says Peter Bay Kierkegaard, senior chief consultant at the Confederation of Danish Industry, in a written comment.
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