The U.S. Supreme Court may have ruled against President Trump’s use of an emergency economics law to impose tariffs on foreign countries, but that doesn’t mean the president is left without other measures he can pursue to implement them.
In its Friday decision in Learning Resources, Inc., et al v. Trump, the high court ruled (6-3) that Trump’s invocation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to enact tariffs on foreign goods coming into the United States is unlawful. The majority more specifically asserted that the president’s reliance on the statute’s “regulate … importation” language does not encompass the power to levy tariffs.
