The Court of Appeal (confirming the sentence of a lower grade court) therefore disputes the line of the American president who, to impose the duties, relies on the International Emergency Economic Power Act (IEEPA). That is to a law promulgated in 1977, which authorizes the president to declare a national emergency in response to unusual and extraordinary threats to national security, foreign policy or the United States economy. “It seems unlikely that the congress, issuing the Ieepa – write the judges – intended to grant the president an unlimited authority to impose duties”.
The American president replies in a close tour and turns on the judicial battle: “A party court of appeal – he writes on Truth – has mistakenly stated that our duties should be removed, but knows that in the end the United States of America will win. If these duties were never eliminated, it would be a total disaster for the country. It would make us financially weak and we must be strong. The United States – continues Trump – will no longer tolerate enormous commercial deficits and customs duties and non -tariff commercial barriers unjust imposed by other countries, friends or enemies, who undermine our producers, farmers and all the others. If left in force, this decision would literally destroy the United States of America. For many years our indifferent and imprudent politicians have allowed the duties to be used against us. Now, with the help of the United States Supreme Court – he concludes – we will use them for the benefit of our nation and make America again rich, strong and powerful ».
In an additional document filed a few hours before the publication of the sentence, the officials of the Trump administration claimed that blocking global duties by declaring them illegal would have damaged foreign policy and national security of the United States. “Such a sentence would threaten the wider strategic interests of the United States at home and abroad, probably leading to retaliation and the resolution of the agreed agreements by foreign commercial partners,” wrote the secretary to trade, Howard Lutnick.
In the meantime, the Treasury Secretary Scott Besent has warned that suspending customs rates “would entail a dangerous diplomatic embarrassment”.