The Trump administration takes prices to fight against the American Supreme Court
The Trump administration took the fight against its prices before the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking the judges to decide quickly that the president has the power to impose radical commercial penalties under federal law.
The US government has called upon the Court to overthrow a court of appeal that most of the US President Donald Trump’s prices are the illegal use of an emergency powers law.
The United States Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit has left the prices in place for the moment, but the administration has nevertheless called the High Court to intervene quickly in a request filed Wednesday evening and provided to the Associated Press.
He was to be officially accelerated on Thursday.
US Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the judges to take the case and hear arguments in early November.
Managers of the Trump administration spent the weekend to postpone a decision of the American Court of Appeal that most prices against Canada were illegal. The economic adviser, Peter Navarro, described the politically motivated decision.
“This decision throws a veil of uncertainty about the current foreign negotiations that the president continued through prices in the past five months, endangering the two executive agreements already negotiated and the negotiations in progress,” he wrote.
“The stakes in this case could not be higher.”
Prices harming to small businesses: lawyer
But the challenges are also high for small businesses beaten by prices and uncertainty, said Jeffrey Schwab, principal advisor and director of disputes to Liberty Justice Center.
“These illegal prices are inflicting serious damage to small businesses and endanger their survival. We hope for a rapid resolution of this case for our customers,” he said.
Companies prevailed twice, once before a federal trade focused on trade and again with decision 7-4 of the court of appeal
The prices and their erratic deployment have shaken the global markets, alienated from trade partners and American allies and released higher prices and slower economic growth.
But Trump has also used samples to put pressure on the European Union, Japan and other countries to accept new commercial transactions. Prices income totaled $ 159 billion at the end of August, more than double what it was at the same time the previous year.
Most judges of the United States Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit revealed that the 1977 international economic powers law had not left Trump Usurp Congressional Power to set prices. The dissidents said that he had allowed the president to regulate importationless import during emergencies.
The decision includes two import tax sets, both justified by Trump by declaring a national emergency: the prices announced for the first time in April and those of February on imports of Canada, China and Mexico.
The American Constitution gives the congress the power to impose taxes, including the prices. But over the decades, legislators have sold authority to the president and Trump took advantage of the power vacuum.
Some Trump prices, including samples from foreign steel, aluminum and cars, were not covered by the decision of the Court of Appeal. Nor does he include the prices that Trump imposed on China during his first mandate which was held by American president Joe Biden.
Trump can impose prices under other laws, but they have more limits at the speed and gravity with which he could act.
The government has argued that if the prices are canceled, it may have to reimburse some of the import taxes it has collected, bringing a financial blow to the US Treasury.
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