A Federal Court supports Trump and freezes the ruling of a lower court against tariffs
A Federal Court of Appeals has approved on Thursday the request of the government of the US President, Donald Trump, of extend the temporary suspension of a lower court ruling which annulled most of the tariffs announced by the president last April.
The Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit decided on Tuesday that the measure issued on May 28 by the US International Trade Court It is “temporarily suspended until new notice While this court studies the documents of the motions, “explains the order.
None of the Magistrates of the Court have shown its refusal to this decision, which has also scheduled a view for the arguments of the parties on July 31.
The Trump government had already warned that if the Court of Appeals did not maintain the suspension, it would request an emergency appeal from the Supreme Court, arguing that The sentence of May 28 prevented executing the commercial policy of the Executive at a time when Washington negotiates with its business partners.
After this Tuesday’s decision, it is expected that both the suspension of the aforementioned sentence and the process before the Federal Court of Appeals may last months.
A respite for Trump
The Donald Trump government filed an appeal before this Court after The president has no authority to apply “unlimited” The Law on Economic Powers in International Emergencies.
Trump invoked this rule to apply global taxes on April 2 (the so -called “reciprocal tariffs) as well as others for China, Mexico and Canada.
The extension of the temporary suspension supposes A new respite for the Trump governmentwhich has denounced a “judicial persecution” by different US courts that have suspended several of their most controversial measures.
In any case, both experts, as members of the Trump Executive have pointed out that, regardless of what the judges end up dictating, The White House can apply taxes by resorting to other lawsalthough the procedures to activate them would be somewhat more complex and would take longer.
