One day after a federal courtyard declared many of his prices to be illegalPresident Trump and his best collaborators rushed Thursday to revive the centerpiece of the administration’s commercial program, seeking to restore their ability to use the threat of attractive import taxes to force other nations to submit.
Shortly after the decision, the administration asked two sets of judges to allow it to continue to impose its prices, reflecting an increasing fear throughout the White House that a legal defeat could considerably reduce its ability to carry out a world trade war.
Since entering into office, Trump had relied on a Federal law on emergency powers As a form of political lever effect, in the hope of using duties from top to bottom – or simple threat – to force other governments to make commercial concessions.
But the little -known and highly specialized American court of international trade brought an early but significant blow to this strategy on Wednesday evening. The Bipartisan jury, one of whom had been appointed by Mr. Trump, judged that the law had not granted the president “unlimited authority” to impose prices on almost all countries, as Mr. Trump had asked.
The administration quickly asked the court to suspend any application of its order when it appealed to the American Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit, where it also requested emergency compensation.
