Trump Deploys Alternative Tariff Plan After Supreme Court Ruling: What to Know

President Donald Trump said on Feb. 20 that he will issue an executive order to create a 10 percent “global tariff,” announced shortly after the Supreme Court invalidated his reciprocal duties on U.S. trading partners. The new tariff would be added to existing import levies, which remain in place under the court’s decision. “The good news is that there are methods, practices, statutes, and authorities, as recognized by the entire court in this terrible decision, and also recognized by Congress, which they refer to, that are even stronger than the IEEPA tariffs available to me as president of the United States,” Trump told reporters at a press briefing....