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Many people supposed that Trump's prices were illegal, and for the first time, a court confirmed that Trump did not have the emergency authority to impose prices according to his whims, and the court ruled that the prices were blocked, and potentially, the money that was collected should be returned.
The court ruled:
The Constitution attributes to the congress the exclusive powers of “Place and collect taxes, rights, taxes and excites” and to “regulate trade with foreign nations”. US Const. art. I, § 8, CLS. 1, 3. The question in the two cases in court is to know if the international law on the economic powers of 1977 (“ieepa”) delegates this powers to the president in the form of authority to impose unlimited tariffs on the goods of almost all countries of the world. The court does not read Iepa to confer such an unlimited authority and puts aside the disputed rates imposed there.
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The court has the reasons preceding that the ieepa does not authorize any of the global tariff orders, reprisals or traffic. Global tariff orders and reprisals exceed any authority granted to the president by the IEEPA to regulate importation by means of prices. Traffic prices fail because they do not treat threats set out in these orders. This conclusion authorizes applicants to the judgment in law; As the court also does not conclude any dispute about any important fact, a summary judgment goes against the United States.
See USCIT R. 56. The disputed tariff orders will be canceled and their operation permanently.
There is no ambiguity in the court's decision. Trump's actions are illegal and the prices are toast.
Below, a public prosecutor explains what it means.