“The Attorney General (…) asks the court respectfully to accelerate the solution of this case as far as possible, since it is of enormous importance to quickly confirm the full legal force of the president of the president,” wrote Sauer to the Supreme Court. This should decide by September 10 if possible whether he takes care of the case. If so, then the oral hearings should take place at the beginning of November at the latest, said Sauer.
On Friday last week, a court of appeal had declared a large part of the import duties imposed by Trump. The president is not authorized to impose such far -reaching tariffs, but only the congress in Washington, explained the appellate court in the capital Washington, among other things. However, the judges left the tariffs into force until mid -October.
Trump had rely on an emergency law from 1977 when imposing the tariffs. The Court of Appeal said that this law gave the US President “far-reaching powers” in order to react to a “declared national emergency”. However, these did not expressly contain the authorization to “raise tariffs, taxes or the like”.
The punitive tariffs that Trump had imposed in several steps against numerous states from the beginning of April are affected by the judge’s decision – and which are generally applied to any kind of imported goods. For industry-specific tariffs such as the surcharges on aluminum, steel and auto imports, the judgment of the Court of Appeal, against which the US government is now doing, does not apply.
