The United States International Trade Court invalidates all the duties promulgated from January, excluding only those on steel, aluminum and automotive. The administration has already filed an appeal, while the White House accuses: “Judicial coup d’état”.
This night, in the United States, the tight struggle between the Trump administration and the American judicial system has entered a new phase. With a decision expressed in a document of 50 pages, the Court of International Commerce of States United has established that the President Donald Trump He passed his authority by imposing duties on imports from the commercial partners of the United States.
The decision is based on the interpretation that the Court made of the law used by the Trump Administration to impose the now famous duties of the “Liberation Day”, or the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a law dating back to 1977 and designed to face “unusual and extraordinary” during a national emergency.
According to the Court, this emergency would not exist, so much from invalidate all the executive orders of Trump with immediate effect regarding the duties from January of this year that were based on the EIEPA. Be careful, however, the Court did not express itself on the duties imposed on some industrial sectors, such as that of automotive, steel or aluminum.
The reasons given by the Court are that the IEEPA is not interpreted “as an act that confers unlimited authority” in the imposition of the duties; In addition to this, the Court specified that the decision taken would not be political, but only of interpretation of a law: “The Court does not pronounce on the wisdom or probable effectiveness of the use of rates as a lever by the President”, but the use of the IEPA made by Trump, according to the judges, “is inadmissible not because it is not very wise or ineffective, but because (the federal law) does not allow it”.
The American administration does not think so, which in fact almost immediately appealed against the decision. The judges hit the very heart of the Trumpismas well as a not indifferent negotiating lever used to try to rebalance the Gargantulesco commercial deficit that grips the United Statesdeficit that in 2024 reached the figure monstrous Of 1.2 trillion dollars (which drops to 918 if you also consider the services as well as to the artifacts).
Stephen MillerDeputy chief of staff of Trump’s and councilor, spoke of “coup d’état out of control”, while a spokesman for the White House, Kush Petaisaid that the commercial deficits of the United States with other countries constitute “a national emergency that has decimated the American communities, left behind our workers and weakened our industrial defense base – facts that the Court has not contested”. “It is not up to unleashed judges to decide how to correctly face a national emergency».
Also China, which it had recently found an agreement To lower mutual rates waiting for a wider agreement, he caught the jump ball. The spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, He yongqianimmediately invited the United States “to cancel all the improper unilateral duties”, evoking the decision made by the court. The markets, as predictable, welcomed the news very positively, with the future of Wall Street in a strong increase, the dollar that has strengthened compared to currencies such as Euro, Yen and Franco Swiss, and the bags from all over the world that opened positively.
Surely Trump will not give up one of his workhorses, as well as the main means of negotiation in commercial disputes, without fighting. The first step, the appeal against the decision of the Court, has already been undertaken.
