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An appeals court stopped an order that would have required Rodney Scott to testify in the case about tariff refunds.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the failure of trading partners to address the importation of goods made with forced labor “is unacceptable.”
Customs and Border Protection has started the first phase of tariff refunds following a Supreme Court decision invalidating Trump’s global levies.
Lawyers for the Justice Department warned that ’the coming process will take time.’
The EU is pressing Washington for clarity, India is hinting at delays, and Japan is seeking equal treatment under new U.S. tariffs.
The U.S. president commended Vietnam’s commitment to rebalance trade between the two nations, the Hanoi regime said.
Bessent suggested that the Supreme Court ruled that only IEEPA cannot be used to impose tariffs on imports from other countries.
Tariffs levied under the emergency powers law brought in about $130 billion in revenue.
The legal process could take up to five years, the president said.
‘Section 122 offers the fastest path forward,’ according to ING economists.
The speaker says that work will commence on tariffs in ‘the coming weeks,’ responding to a Supreme Court decision Friday.
The court ruled that that administration overstepped its authority in levying global tariffs under an emergency powers law.
He pointed to statutes such as the Trade Act of 1974, which lets the president lay tariffs to address trade imbalances.
The Supreme Court overturned the administration’s use of emergency powers to implement global tariffs. The new tariffs are invoked under a different authority.
The refund process is expected to be a ’mess’ and have ‘consequences’ for the Treasury.
As of noon Friday, the Nasdaq, Dow Jones, and S&P 500 were up slightly.
The president said he will reimpose new tariffs using other legal authorities available to the executive branch.
The court ruled 6–3 that Trump’s reciprocal tariffs were not authorized under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
The president celebrated a Georgia steel company’s success during a rally in the Peach State.
Trump expects that the United States’ trade balance will turn positive this year.
