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A U.S. federal court blocked the tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on April 2, “Liberation Day,” from taking effect, ruling that Trump had overstepped his authority by imposing sweeping tariffs on countries that export more to the U.S. than they import.
The Court of International Trade in Manhattan, New York, said the U.S. Constitution gives Congress exclusive power to regulate trade with other countries, and the emergency powers the president claims to have exercised to protect the U.S. economy do not override those powers.
The lawsuit was filed by the Liberty Justice Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan litigation organization in the U.S., on behalf of five small U.S. businesses affected by the tariffs, and it was the first major legal challenge to Trump’s tariff policy.
