Court Permanently Blocks Trump’s Newest Tariffs, Orders More Tariff Refunds

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Originally published at: Court Permanently Blocks Trump’s Newest Tariffs, Orders More Tariff Refunds

President Donald Trump’s signature economic policy hit another brick wall Thursday evening when the Court of International Trade overturned new tariffs Trump enacted to replace the tariffs blocked by the Supreme Court. The Court of International Trade Chief Judge Mark A. Barnett and Judge Claire R. Kelly ruled Trump’s Section 122 tariffs were unlawful. They…

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“The President cannot impose these tariffs under Section 122.”

Since the court threw out 23 states for lack of standing, and only included WA state and 2 businesses, does this verdict apply only to these 3 entities, or is it a blanket nullification for all?

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Whatever the scope of this ruling, if it’s bad for Shitler, it’s good for the United States of America.

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Wow: I didn’t realize that balance of payments was the underlying basis for Mr. Trump’s arbitrary tariffs. If so, it is a really stupid idea. An analogy given by an economist is where a poor country imports agricultural products to the U.S. What would we expect to happen: they export bananas to us and then import supercomputers from us? Of course, there would be a huge trade imbalance with that country, but it would be hard to argue that obtaining cheap bananas was somehow harming U.S. companies or consumers.

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Of course I try to keep up, but this has me confused–is this a game-changer or is this another situation where Alito will come to Trump’s rescue?

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Depends, Alito most likely would like to help Trump, but if it affects one of his billionaire friends… it’s a tough one

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Hard to tell, but it appears that the “major questions” doctrine can be a double-edged sword. However, one bit of arguably good news here is that Court of International Trade judges are Article III judges and Trump can’t simply can them and replace them with lackeys who will do his bidding as he’s done with immigration judges. Of course there’s an appeal coming, so we’ll know more in a while.

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The news in Seattle tonight, FWIW, said that Washington was the only state to qualify for refunds as a state, but that the tariffs overall were thrown out.

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