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President Trump said Saturday he’s going to bump his newly imposed global tariff to 15%, in the wake of the Supreme Court decision blocking his sweeping import taxes on international trading partners.

The increase was “based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday, after MANY months of contemplation, by the United States Supreme Court,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social.

“During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs, which will continue our extraordinarily successful process of Making America Great Again – GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!” he wrote.


  President Trump announced Saturday that he is raising the global tariff to the maximum 15%, which is allowed under the trade law he decided to use after the Supreme Court ruled against him on Friday. Kyle Mazza/Shutterstock President Trump announced Saturday that he is raising the global tariff to the maximum 15%, which is allowed under the trade law he decided to use after the Supreme Court ruled against him on Friday. Kyle Mazza/Shutterstock

Trump announced 10% global tariffs Friday after the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision that the president had exceeded his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which allows presidents to regulate commerce during national emergencies, to impose tariffs to address trade imbalances and halt fentanyl smuggling.

Trump had previously said he was “ashamed” of three conservative Supreme Court justices who ruled against him, and now plans to rely on a different legal provision known as Section 122, under the Trade Act of 1974.

The legal avenue is fast, but it’s also temporary.

It allows for tariffs up to 15 % for a maximum of 150 days to address “large and serious” trade deficits.

The president is “already on shaky ground,” claimed Andrew Hale, a trade expert at the think tank Advancing American Freedom, which is affiliated with former Vice President Mike Pence.

He said the law only applies when there are “large and serious US balance of payments deficits under a fixed rate system,” but the world “abandoned the fixed rate exchange rate system in the 1970s.”

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Trump also said he would use other authorities to reimpose tariffs, but these take more time and require official investigations before taking effect.

US Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer, the country’s chief negotiator on trade, said additional tariff efforts under Section 301 “which are incredibly legally durable” would commence.

Those tariffs are meant to address unfair trade practices which contribute to the deficit. 

“We’re going to keep continuity in the program,” Greer said Friday.

Trump used his authority under Section 301 of the Trade Act to impose tariffs on Chinese exports during his first term, and they withstood challenges.

Trump said Friday he was “initiating several Section 301, and other investigations, to protect our country from unfair trading practices of other countries and companies.”

Despite Democrats who saw the Supreme Court decision as a political victory, US Sen. John Kennedy cautioned they should be careful what they wish for.

“My Democratic peeps better be careful what they ask for. Because if he gives back $300 billion worth of tariff money to the business community in America, this economy’s going to roar, man, and the midterms are only a few months off,”  Kennedy (R-La.) told Fox News.

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