Markets Soar After Trump Tariffs Are Ruled Illegal
The dollar and equity futures are spiking higher after the US Court of International Trade invalidated many of President Trump’s tariffs on key trading partners, finding in two cases that he had substantially exceeded his authority to impose duties under federal law. Citing the president’s overreach under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a bipartisan panel of three judges this evening suspended the majority of the levies imposed in recent months, including near-universal 10-percent “baseline” tariffs, “reciprocal” measures against a number of countries, and fentanyl-related duties on imports from China, Canada, and Mexico. Other tariffs imposed under different powers,...