United States: In a fervent plea to the Court of International Trade in New York, President Donald Trump's administration implored a halt on a recent injunction obstructing his extensive tariff mandates, cautioning that the verdict’s enforcement could spiral into a diplomatic catastrophe.

On Wednesday, a panel of three judges rebuked the blanket tariffs, labeling them as inconsistent with federal law. Their written opinion emphasized that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) — the cornerstone for Trump's trade maneuver — doesn’t grant unrestrained authority to the president to impose tariffs.

“The president’s claim to unconstrained tariff authority, absent any definable limit in time or scope, trespasses the legal bounds of IEEPA. The global and retaliatory tariffs, thus, exceed lawful jurisdiction and stand in opposition to established statutes,” the bench declared.

They further noted that, under normal governance structures, the prerogative to set tariffs lies squarely with Congress. Trump's unilateral moves failed to satisfy the critical threshold of an “unusual and extraordinary threat,” a condition necessary for executive intervention.

The legal barrage intensified Thursday when a separate federal bench similarly denounced the global tariffs as unlawful. US District Judge Rudolph Contreras — a jurist seated by former President Obama — underscored that IEEPA lacks provisions to legitimize the bulk of Trump’s recent tariff edicts.
 

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