President Trump announces reciprocal tariffs.
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DONALD Trump’s sweeping global tariffs are now at risk after a court has said he doesn’t have the power to impose the levies himself.

On Wednesday, a US federal court in New York halted the implementation of most import taxes, asserting that the president had exceeded his legal boundaries.

President Trump announces reciprocal tariffs.
The US President held up a chart of the tariffs he was implementingCredit: AFP
A customer holds a bottle of liquor in a store with a sign that says "Buy Canadian Instead".
Trump’s tariffs caused a sharp response in CanadaCredit: Reuters
Aerial view of the Port of Oakland, showing cargo ships, cranes, and containers.
Tariffs are levies paid on bringing a good or service into a countryCredit: Getty

This ruling by the Court of International Trade is a significant blow to Trump, who has aimed to revamp global trade dynamics and prioritize the US by leveraging its economic strength to negotiate agreements.

Trump has started a global trade war with nearly every country by instituting a minimum 10 per tariff on their exports into the US.

Additionally, he imposed a 25 percent tariff on Mexico and Canada, claiming these measures were necessary to curb illegal immigration and the influx of the dangerous drug Fentanyl.

The court’s order could spell an end to Trump’s international trade war as it bars Trump’s most sweeping tariffs, effectively erasing most of the trade restrictions Trump has announced since taking office.

But Trump is likely to appeal and take the fight all the way to the Supreme Court.

White House spokesman Kush Desai said: “Foreign countries’ nonreciprocal treatment of the Unites States has fueled America’s historic and persistent trade deficits.

“These deficits have created a national emergency that has decimated American communities, left our workers behind, and weakened our defense industrial base – facts that the court did not dispute.

“It is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency. President Trump pledged to put America First, and the Administration is committed to using every lever of executive power to address this crisis and restore American Greatness.”

The ruling does not state that tariffs themselves are illegal, but that the executive branch does not have the authority to impose them without Congress.

The president used a 1977 federal economic emergency law to justify a range of levies.

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The three-judge panel wrote in an unsigned opinion: “The question in the two cases before the court is whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (“IEEPA”) delegates these powers to the president in the form of authority to impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world.

“The court does not read IEEPA to confer such unbounded authority and sets aside the challenged tariffs imposed thereunder.”

One of Trump’s key aides, Stephen Miller, attacked the ruling in a post on social media saying: “The judicial coup is out of control.”

Trump memorably held up a board showing rates he was about to set individual trading partners in the White House’s Rose Garden when he announced the tariffs as part of a “liberation day”.

China was clobbered with 34 per cent tariffs, Vietnam 46 per cent, Thailand 36 per cent and Cambodia 49 per cent.

Tariffs on China were eventually increased to a whopping 145 per cent as Trump sought to begin negotiations.

The ten per cent on Britain was at the bottom of the sliding scale devised by Trump’s officials.

Markets were thrown into turmoil but calmed after he paused the larger tariffs for 90 days.

He also suspended some of the higher duties pending negotiations with individual countries and blocs.

Britain has signed a new trade deal with Trump following the imposition of the tariffs – how that will be affected is not yet clear.

Photo of four men in suits at a bilateral meeting between the U.S. and China.
US and Chinese representatives at trade talksCredit: Reuters
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