Court Rejects Trump Tariffs Under Section 122: Texas Brief

May 8, 2026, 12:05 PM UTC

Court Rules Trump’s 10% Tariffs Unlawful

A federal trade court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s 10% global tariffs are unlawful, Erik Larson and Zoe Tillman report.

The decision is another setback for the administration’s economic agenda, coming only months after the Supreme Court vacated levies imposed by Trump.

A divided three-judge panel at the US Court of International Trade in Manhattan yesterday granted a request by a group of small businesses and two dozen mostly Democratic-led states to vacate the tariffs. Trump imposed the 10% duties in February under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, ...

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