Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed. Trump had used the act to charge huge levies on countries, including 50% on India, which was later reduced, and 34% on China.
By Friday night, the president posted on Truth Social that he signed an executive order enabling him to bypass Congress and impose a 10% tax on imports from around the world. “It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately,” Trump wrote.
Less than 24 hours later, Trump said he was bumping up the tariffs to 15% “based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday.”
This time is technically legal because of Hawley, but it should go back to when he started this dumb shit in the first place. We’ll see if we can get a Federal Judge to smack this down in the next week.
All these companies collecting this money just need to fucking stop, and say “Fine then sue me” to the WH, but then of course we know they’ll be flooded with ICE. Trump has a private army now that needs to be dealt with in order to stop all this shit.
There aren’t companies collecting the money. Customs and Border Patrol receives (paid for) goods, inspects them, charges a tariff, and releases the goods once the company who ordered it have paid the tariff.
A company has ordered something, paid for it, and receives a bill from CBP saying “pay this tariff or you can’t have the stuff you’ve ordered and paid for”.
I’ve gotten ransom letters for things I’ve order from UPS and FedEx. Sure seems like they have some control over it.
For smaller packages that’s fine, FedEx etc. are allowed to pay the tariffs, then reclaim them from you (plus an admin fee you can get them to waive if you bug them).
It’s a different arrangement for commercial companies, but the end result is the same - CBP take the tariffs in exchange for the goods, whether they take them from the customer directly, or from a broker like FedEx.
Honestly, I wish they’d all ban together and say we aren’t collecting any of this. The problem is that they individually bend the knee, comply in advance, etc.