États-Unis: un tribunal invalide les droits de douane temporaires de 10% voulus par Donald Trump
A US court ruled on Thursday, May 7, that the temporary 10% tariffs imposed in February by Donald Trump to replace the sweeping tariffs that had been struck down by the Supreme Court were illegal.
According to the International Trade Tribunal (ITT), the US government cannot rely on a 1974 law aimed at rebalancing trade between the United States and its trading partners to impose such tariffs.
The Court ruled by a two-to-one vote that Trump had exceeded the tariff powers granted to him by Congress under the law. The tariffs are "invalid" and "not authorized by law," the majority wrote.
The third judge on the panel felt that the law gives the president greater leeway regarding tariffs.
Another setback for Donald Trump
This is another blow to the US president who has placed tariffs at the heart of his policy since returning to the White House in early 2025 and is threatening to impose new ones.
The court also ordered the U.S. government to reimburse—with interest—the tariffs unjustly collected over the past two months to small businesses that had filed lawsuits. If the administration appeals Thursday's ruling, as expected, it will first appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Court of Appeals in Washington, and then potentially to the Supreme Court.
The dispute concerns the temporary 10% tariffs imposed globally by the Trump administration after the Supreme Court struck down, in February, even higher tariffs that the president had imposed the previous year on almost every country in the world.
These customs duties, invoked under section 122 of the Trade Act 1974, were due to expire on July 24.
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