Trump’s Aggressive Trade Agenda Is Back On

Brewing tariff court battles won't spike White House ...

North American Solidarity Needed to Navigate Trump’s Trade Wars

Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump has kicked over the sandcastle defending what is left of the rules-based international trading order. As critics of that order, we accept the opportunity and challenge it creates to rethink international relations and mutating neoliberal dogmas. However, we are greatly concerned by the chaos and misfortune that Trump’s actions have caused for workers and farmers across North America. No one chooses to be born i…

Trump’s Aggressive Trade Agenda Is Back On

(NAFB.com) – A federal court ruled Wednesday that an emergency law does not provide President Trump with unilateral authority to impose tariffs on nearly every country. The interruption was short-lived after a federal appeals court granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily pause a lower-court ruling. A federal appeals court has now granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily pause the Wednesday lower-court ruling th…

What the Law Allows

In so holding, the court does not pass upon the wisdom or likely effectiveness of the President’s use of tariffs as leverage. That use is impermissible not because it is unwise or ineffective, but because [the law] does not allow it. – US Court of International Trade,rejecting Trump’s emergency tariffs This week’s featured post is “Are Trump’s Tariffs Legal?“ This week everybody was talking about tariffs That’s the subject of the featured post. …

FPSA - US Court for International Trade rules Trump's tariffs illegal

The CIT’s decision would invalidate Trump’s orders imposing 25% duties on products imported to the United States from Canada and Mexico and a 20% tariff on imports from China, which became effective Feb. 4. Read MoreThe post US Court for International Trade rules Trump’s tariffs illegal appeared first on FPSA.

Trump’s Trade War Now Closer to Endgame As White House Loses Court Cases, According to Fundstrat’s Tom Lee - The Daily Hodl

The chief investment officer of market intelligence firm Fundstrat says that President Donald Trump's trade war is nearing its end as courts rule against the White House.