Businesses have been hoping for clarity as President Trump’s trade war enters its eighth month. Instead, they’re getting more confusion and prolonged uncertainty as legal challenges upend a fundamental premise of the whole scheme. A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that most of the tariffs Trump has imposed so far are illegal. Many trade…
A federal appeals court struck down most of President Trump’s Congress-averting global import tariffs Friday in a dispute that’s predicted to head to the US Supreme Court. The 7-4 ruling, issued by 11 judges for the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., allows the tariffs to remain in place while…
Small business importers and the US Justice Department clashed Thursday over whether President Trump has the authority to impose his “Liberation Day” tariffs just hours before those duties were scheduled to take effect for countries around the world. The confrontation took place in Washington, D.C. before a panel of 12 judges at the Circuit Court…
WITH AMERICA still reeling from the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump on around 180 countries, a conservative organisation has filed a lawsuit challenging an initial round of tariffs the president announced in February—and doubled in March—on Chinese imports. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), which counts Charles Koch, a right-wing billionaire, among its supporters, argues…
Feb 25 – New testing of a cheap and deadly drug that has triggered a national emergency in Sierra Leone reveals it is composed of synthetic opioids and cannabinoids imported from abroad, according to a report published on Tuesday. Sierra Leone ‘kush’ drug made of ingredients from China, UK, report says Sierra Leone’s President Julius…
On Feb. 1, President Donald Trump issued three executive orders concerning a “public health crisis” regarding the influx of illicit drugs to the United States from Canada, Mexico, and China. The orders reiterate the national emergency the president declared on his first day in office regarding the “grave threat to the United States posed by…