{"id":28433,"date":"2026-05-11T11:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=28433"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:44:22","slug":"trump-admin-moves-to-appeal-tariff-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=28433","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admin Moves to Appeal Tariff Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(The Center Square) \u2013 President Donald Trump\u2019s administration signaled Friday it intends to appeal a federal trade court\u2019s ruling striking down his 10% global tariff as unlawful, while simultaneously pressing ahead with a separate round of import taxes that could take effect as early as July.\n<\/p>\n

Who is praying on the wall?<\/h4>\n

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American businesses have paid $166 billion in tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Those tariffs, which the Supreme Court struck down in February, are in the process of being refunded to the importers who paid them. An additional $8 billion was collected from the Section 122 tariff, which was struck down Thursday, according to We Pay the Tariffs, a coalition of nearly 1,200 small businesses that opposes tariffs. The Yale Budget Lab, a nonpartisan policy research center, estimated the Section 122 tariffs would cost the average U.S. household between $600 and $800 per year.\n<\/p>\n

A Federal Reserve Bank of New York report, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and a Duke University study all concluded that Americans are paying nearly the entire cost of tariffs, not foreign countries as the White House has maintained.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump has lawfully used the tariff authorities granted to him by Congress to address our balance of payments crisis,\u201d White House spokesman Kush Desai told The Center Square on Friday. \u201cThe Trump administration is reviewing legal options and maintains confidence in ultimately prevailing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s U.S. Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, said Friday the administration expects to prevail on appeal.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThey essentially said that Congress passed a law that can\u2019t be used, which we all know in the legal community, that\u2019s not how law should be interpreted,\u201d Greer told Fox Business Network\u2019s \u201cMornings with Maria\u201d show. \u201cThey should be interpreted to be used. So we\u2019re confident that on appeal we\u2019ll be successful.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The Court of International Trade\u2019s decision on Thursday only applied to two small businesses and the state of Washington. That means the government is still collecting the tariffs on all other importers.\n<\/p>\n

Michael Lowell, partner and chair at Reed Smith\u2019s Global Regulatory Enforcement Group, said the narrow ruling leaves the next move to the administration.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout a universal injunction, the ball\u2019s really in the government\u2019s court on what comes next,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s almost certainly an appeal to the Federal Circuit court of appeals.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The lone dissenting judge, Timothy Stanceu, argued the majority invented a measurement standard and warned that under the majority\u2019s logic, a federal statistics agency could repeal a law simply by changing how it measures economic data.\n<\/p>\n

Phillip Magness, a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, said Trump\u2019s path ahead is \u201cbecoming increasingly difficult.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Supreme Court has already ruled against the administration in the IEEPA tariff case, and the Court of International Trade is showing growing impatience over delays in refunding unlawfully collected tariffs,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n

While the expected appeal plays out in the courts, the administration has been building its next tariff vehicle. Greer\u2019s office launched Section 301 investigations on March 11 against 16 economies, including most of the United States\u2019 top trade partners. Hearings on those investigations ended Friday. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in April the new tariff regime could go into effect in July.\n<\/p>\n

Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 allows the president to impose tariffs after the U.S. Trade Representative investigates and finds that a foreign country\u2019s trade practices are unfair or discriminatory. Greer cited what he called structural overproduction that displaces U.S. manufacturing.\n<\/p>\n

Critics say the administration is stretching the law again. Magness said in March that Greer was offering \u201ca tautological redefinition\u201d of unfair trade practices that \u201cbasically treats any exportation of any good to the United States for almost any reason as if it is evidence of an \u2018unfair\u2019 trading practice.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Alfredo Carrillo Obregon, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, said the Section 122 tariffs \u201cwere always meant to be a bridge\u201d to future tariff actions.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can expect more tariff announcements in the coming months,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n

That\u2019s something small businesses can\u2019t afford,\u00a0said Dan Anthony, executive director of We Pay the Tariffs.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall businesses cannot afford a repeat of the IEEPA refund headaches now playing out,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n

With midterm elections approaching, public skepticism of the administration\u2019s tariff agenda is growing. The Center Square Voters\u2019 Voice Poll conducted in March found that 42% of voters believe American consumers primarily pay for tariffs, while just 12% say foreign countries bear the burden.\n<\/p>\n

Magness previously told The Center Square the political costs may become more visible as the Midterm election nears.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cNot all have made the connection yet that tariffs are tantamount to a tax increase on affected goods,\u201d he said. \u201cI suspect this connection will become more pronounced as the election approaches.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Pray for wisdom and discernment for America\u2019s leaders below.<\/h4>\n

This article was originally published at The Center Square. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok.<\/em>
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