"United States President Donald Trump slammed the US Supreme Court as a disgrace after a 6-3 ruling struck down his sweeping global tariffs, stating that he will maintain the levies through alternative means. The president went on to announce on Friday that, despite the top court's decision, he would impose a 10 percent global tariff for 150 days to replace some of his emergency tariffs that were struck down by the court."
"The duties would be over and above tariffs that are currently in place, specifically the sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminium, auto parts and a few others. The new 10 percent tariff would go into effect in about three days. Trump called the court's liberal justices a disgrace to our nation and denounced the conservatives who sided with them as unpatriotic and disloyal to the US Constitution."
"The court ruled, in a 6-3 decision, that Trump cannot use emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from countries worldwide without the consent of Congress. But the US president has argued that he has found a loophole to maintain the levies and even raise them by 10 percent relying on other existing laws that give him powers over trade."
The Supreme Court struck down the president's sweeping global emergency tariffs in a 6-3 ruling that found he could not use emergency powers to impose worldwide import levies without congressional consent. The president responded by calling the court's liberal justices a disgrace and criticized conservatives who joined them. He announced plans to impose a 10 percent global tariff for 150 days to replace some struck-down emergency tariffs, with the tariff taking effect in about three days. These duties would be additional to existing sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminium, auto parts and other items. He asserted that other statutes grant presidential trade authority permitting higher tariffs.
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