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Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Global Tariffs

Decision delivers blow to central prong of president’s economic agenda; levies will remain in place pending further proceedings

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President Trump boarding Air Force One.
Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

A federal appeals court late Friday struck down the Trump administration’s signature tariffs, finding that the president had gone too far in his use of emergency powers to rewrite U.S. trade policy.

The 7-4 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower-court decision that undercuts a core tenet of President Trump’s economic agenda. The majority found the president overstepped his authority under a 1977 law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or Ieepa.

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