By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) – A dozen states continued the Trump administration on Wednesday before the New York International Trade Court to stop its pricing policy, saying that it is illegal and brought Chaos to the American economy.
The trial said that the policy implemented by President Donald Trump has left the national trade policy submitted to the “whims of Trump rather than in the solid exercise of a legal authority”.
This challenged Trump’s assertion that he could arbitrarily impose the prices according to the international law on the economic powers of emergency. The trial asks the court to declare illegal prices and prevent government agencies and its officers from enforcing them.
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The states listed as complainants in the trial were Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York and Vermont.
In a press release, the Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes qualified Trump’s pricing program as “crazy”.
She said it was “not only economically reckless – it is illegal”.
The trial argued that only Congress has the power to impose prices and that the president cannot invoke the international law on the economic powers of emergency when an emergency presents an “unusual and extraordinary threat” from abroad.
“By affirming that the authority of imposing immense prices in constant evolution on the goods entering in the United States which it chooses, for any reason, he deems practice to declare an emergency, the president reversed the constitutional order and brought chaos to the American economy,” said the trial.
Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, continued Trump administration in the American district court in the North District of California about pricing policy, saying that his condition could lose billions of dollars in revenues as the largest importer in the country.
The spokesman for the White House, Kush Desai, responded to the Newsom trial, saying that the Trump administration “remains determined to tackle this national emergency which decimates the American industries and to leave our workers at each tool, from prices to negotiations.”
Originally published:
California Daily Newspapers
