The lawsuit challenges the Trump administration’s use of a once-obscure congressional act from 1977 to impose global tariffs.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon Attorney General Day Rayfield is leading a multi-state lawsuit against the Trump administration over the president’s global trade war.
The lawsuit argues that the president has no authority to “arbitrarily impose tariffs” as he has done in the last three months, including his April 2 announcement that imposed sweeping new tariffs on much of the world, causing global market chaos.
President Trump’s import taxes, which he calls “reciprocal tariffs,” impose a baseline 10% tariff on all countries and higher tariffs on countries
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