U.S. Court of International Trade rules several of Trump's tariffs as contrary to law

A federal three-judge panel on Wednesday ruled against several of President Donald Trump's tariffs on international trading partners, ruling that he had exceeded his authority.

A federal three-judge panel on Wednesday ruled against several of President Donald Trump's tariffs on international trading partners, ruling that he had exceeded his authority.

The Trump administration quickly moved to appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

In their judgment Wednesday, the U.S. Court of International Trade panel said that Trump’s tariffs lacked “any identifiable limits,” and found that the decades-old International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a federal law that Trump cited in many of his executive orders, did not “delegate an unbounded tariff authority to the President.”

“We instead read IEEPA’s provisions to impose meaningful limits on any such authority it confers," they wrote.

The ruling blocks most of the tariffs Trump has rolled out so far in his second term, including the 10% rate applied to most trading partners and those on China. It also includes fentanyl-related levies on Canada and Mexico.