The administration’s power to impose universal tariffs, the court argued, is specified in a different law: the 1974 Trade Act,” the outlet wrote.It doesn’t appear Trump is quite there yet.
This act allows Trump to impose a 15% tariff for 150 days. “It also allows unlimited levies (tariffs) on specific trading partners whose trade policy the administration judges to be ‘unjustifiable’ or to ‘[burden] or restrict’ American firms,” they said.
Trump is only able to impose this tariff after an investigation, a public notice, and a comment period. These restrictions were put in place after President Richard Nixon used an earlier version of the bill.
“It is to these alternative powers that Mr. Trump can now be expected to turn,” the Economist wrote. “A universal tariff of 10% applied under the Trade Act would give the administration about five months to have the ruling overturned on appeal.”
This, however, is not realistic because the act would require an investigation into every trading partner that hasn’t come to the table with a trade deal. Thus, the disputes will likely find their way to the Supreme Court.
I really don’t think we can expect any more coherence than this, for awhile.normal stuff pic.twitter.com/QWgIGoQhOi
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 29, 2025
Somebody tag Jake Tapper….REPORTER: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign students visa?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 28, 2025
TRUMP: On what?
REPORTER: Foreign student visas
TRUMP: For the French?
REPORTER: All the foreign students
TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what? pic.twitter.com/ynKnbjQ0Xt
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