The Attorner General of Oregon continues the Trump administration on prices

The Attorney General of Oregon, Dan Rayfield, continues President Donald Trump on the aggressive prices of the administration who rout the markets and upset the world trade.

The trial, filed on Wednesday before the American International Trade Court in New York, is the first time that Oregon has led a coalition of states pursuing the second Trump administration.

The trial maintains that the American Constitution grants the Congress and not the President, the power to impose and collect taxes.

“However, in the past three months, the president has imposed, modified, degenerated and suspended from prices by executive decree, memoranda, social media position and agency decree,” said the trial. “These edicts reflect a national trade policy which now depends on the presidents of the president rather than the solid exercise of his legal authority.”

Oregon is very dependent on trade and vulnerable to prices. Last year, state companies imported more than $ 28 billion into finished parts and products and exported more than $ 34 billion.

“Oregon cannot sit quietly while the president takes measures that cost us jobs, increase the prices we pay and harm our economy,” said Rayfield at a press conference in Portland announcing the trial.

Economists have warned that widespread prices could hinder Oregon economy and take a blow for the manufacturing sector of the State – similar to the way import taxes affected the state during the first Trump administration.

This month, Trump has declared a national emergency on the United States trade deficit and deployed radical prices that landed the global markets and sown more uncertainty for large and small businesses, as well as industries such as cars. On April 9, the White House interrupted the reciprocal prices to take effect for 90 days, although a new price of 10% between the edge entered into force with new prices against China riding 145%.

Related: A chronology of Trump’s pricing actions so far

US customs officials and border protection, the agency responsible for collecting tariffs, did not immediately respond to a comment request.

Earlier this week, Trump said prices against China would likely decrease.

“145% is very high and it will not be so high,” the president told journalists on Tuesday. “It will not be close to this top. It will drop considerably. But it will not be zero.”

According to Oregon’s trial, the national urgency that the president declares must come from “unusual and extraordinary threats” from the outside of the United States in order to draw the powers granted under the International Economic Economic Powers.

“By affirming that the authority of imposing immense prices in constant evolution on the goods entering the United States which it chooses, for any reason, it deems practical to declare an emergency, the president reversed the constitutional order and brought chaos to the American economy,” said the trial. “The president does not have the power to arbitrarily impose the prices as he did here.”

The trial also notes that the law does not specifically appoint the prices, and no president has used the law as this since its adoption.

“Congress has the sole power to define the pricing policy and, to this end, the Congress has promulgated various laws which allow the president to implement prices under certain conditions and, above all, of certain guarantees,” said Rayfield. “And it is these conditions and guarantees that the president does not like.”

Oregon companies have warned that prices are increasing consumer prices and threatening personnel discounts.

Pat Hubbell has Brooklyn Pharmacy, based in Portland. The independent store obtains almost 80% of its inventory in other countries. Hubbell cannot increase the prices of drugs due to insurance contracts.

“We are already barely hung as pharmacies owners than anyway,” said Hubbell. “And it’s a double blow for us.”

Hubbell hopes that legal action will force the Trump administration to go back or all recent prices.

Exports and imports of Oregon are computer flea and components to help to design and build them. The semiconductor industry employs more than 30,000 Oregonians, and some of the world’s largest computer flea companies have a significant presence in the state.

The Treasurer of Oregon, Elizabeth Steiner, a democrat, told OPB that prices mean that companies – in particular small and medium -sized enterprises – pay more for supplies while losing ground on the world markets.

“It’s a big problem,” said Steiner in an interview on Wednesday. “And it is due to blind prices, imposed in order to have no economic sense and to do nothing to fight against commercial imbalances, are completely poorly thought out and have already played an important negative role in the global economy, not to mention Oregon or the United States. Oregon therefore has every reason to express themselves and to be part of legal action.”

Since Trump took office, Oregon joined more than a dozen prosecution in several states against the actions of the administration. In the latter case, Oregon was joined by 11 other states, including Arizona, New York, Colorado and Minnesota, in the trial filed on Wednesday.

Last week, California became the first state to continue Trump’s prices and argued that the president did not have the legal authority to act by himself.

“President Trump has chosen to handle the ieepa to impose prices on the world with his blow, confused by threats, additions, exceptions, exemptions and breaks,” the Oregon trial on Wednesday. “The direct consequence was an erratic financial market and an American and global economy.”