WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to decide if he had authority to impose broad tariffs under a law designed for use in times of emergency, according to legal filings from late Wednesday.
The Justice Department is appealing a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on August 29 that said most of Trump’s tariffs were illegal, undercutting the Republican president’s use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool.
The tariffs are in effect and will remain in place until at least October 14 under the appeals court ruling.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Kim Coghill and Jacqueline Wong)
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