States process Trump due to tariffs and commercial policy
A dozen American states competing Global tariffs The president is “becoming immense and constantly” Donald TrumpHe said he had illegally escaped the Congress by imposing rates based on the Emergency Emergency Act.
The claim, filed at the US International Court of International Commerce in Manhattan on Wednesday, argued that Congress did not give Trump the power to impose tariffs and national trade policy “now depends on the president’s likes than the legal exercise of his legal authority.”
Trump has “brought to the conclusion of constitutional order and brought confusion to the American economy” this group contains New York, Illinois and Arizona – in an official complaint.
The liturgy will file other similar – filings CaliforniaSmall businesses and members of the Blackfeat Nation Tribe in Montana – with similar allegations. States seek court orders to stop tariffs, including the world, which was suspended by Trump on April 9. They claim that these tariffs are equivalent to a major American consumer tax.
“The President does not have the authority to raise taxes on whim, but Donald Trump is doing this with these rates,” the New York Attorney General said in a statement. “Donald Trump has promised to reduce prices and reduce the cost of living, but these illegal tariffs have a properly opposite effect on American families.”
According to the move, Trump of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act has criticized the complaint, the president to justify the “highly harmful tariffs”.
States have argued that the law was passed five decades ago to prevent the abuse of emergency powers, and only to respond to the “extraordinary and unusual threat”. Commercial errors and other issues Trump They do not receive this standard, states.
“The legal need of an unusual and extraordinary threat is not met by the president’s emergency statement along with the global tariff order,” states say in the complaint. “As the global tariff order detected, the annual commercial errors of the goods USA‘They are’ persistent ‘; Therefore, in definition, they are not ‘unusual and unusual’. ”
Other states involved in this action: Oregon, Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, Vermont, Nevada, Delaware, Minnesota and Maine.
Income with tariffs is more than 60%
Actions of Trump Have already made the recipe Customs tariffs According to information from the Treasury released on Wednesday, the shooting of more than 60% in April will produce at least US $ 15 billion with the implementation of new rates.
Daily Treasury Statement (Daily Treasury Report) Data reflects the tariffs paid in April, which has reached the ports of major importers and sender USA In March.
Daily collections – paid during imports – increased by 40% in April compared to the same period. 25% of tariffs on steel and aluminum Trump Imposed from March 12.
