President Trump said Tuesday that his new tariffs are functionally identical to those the Supreme Court invalidated earlier this year. The remarks came four days after a federal lawsuit accused his administration of using different statutory provisions to resurrect the global tariff regime rejected by courts. The Trump administration on Friday imposed tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on goods from more than 80 countries, citing their failure to effectively prohibit forced labor. A lawsuit argues these new tariff measures are designed to preserve « substantially the same broad tariff regime » that Congress did not authorize.
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