The U.S. Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the authority to impose taxes and tariffs. But Trump turned instead to legal authority, invoking IEEPA to impose the tariffs on nearly all of America’s trading partners without congressional approval. He was the first president to do so, claiming that tariffs were vital to US economic security, arguing that the country would be defenseless and ruined without them.
This Supreme Court decision, which has major implications for the world economy, applies to tariffs presented as “reciprocal” by Donald Trump, but not to those applied to specific sectors, such as automobiles or steel and aluminum.
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