The U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled that a temporary 10% global tariff President Donald Trump installed earlier this year is illegal.
In a slip opinion issued Thursday, the court said that the proclamation Trump signed to enact the levy “is invalid” and that the tariffs themselves are “unauthorized by law.”
The decision came in a case before the court that combined separate lawsuits filed against tariffs Trump installed in February under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. In Thursday’s ruling, the court said the administration’s rationale for implementing the levies did not meet Section 122’s criteria, calling it an “expansive reading of the statute.”
“The Government’s preferred interpretation of the statute must therefore be disfavored,” the court said.
