2mo ago

US Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs, ruling them illegal - Canada (and other) tariffs set to end in 10 days.

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Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs, ruling them illegal

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Wild. I thought this would happen. He tried putting on the tariffs with a flimsy reasoning (fentanyl) and since in reality there is no fentanyl problem coming from Canada they were deemed illegal.
All he needs to do is get congress to pass this. They have a majority in both houses, if you want these tariffs, do it the proper way.
- afaiu, the court argument is not declaring that this is a fake emergency. It is that tariffs are not the appropriate response to reducing fentanyl imports.
  
  Well yeah, putting tariffs on that penguin Island, all of Europe, and whatever else the LLM told him isn't going to do fuck all to reduce any fentanyl he claims is coming from Mexico
  
  They have two arguments:
  congress has the power to tax (tariff), not the president
  congress has previously granted the president “limited” powers for “targeted” tariffs in an “emergency”. The current situation is none of those things.
  combine the above two and Trumps across the boards tariffs are unlawful and therefore void
Lock him up
- Both of them!
I'm assuming we're going to drop some of our relatiatory tarrifs then. Really hoping we don't. Fuck 'em.
- There's an appeal plan, and it's possible that they try to keep the tariffs during appeal process. That the US hates Canada hasn't changed.
  
  Oh trust me, the feeling is mutual. Part of me has been glad that the US has been pulling this shit because it has put every other Canadian on the same page as me. That the United States (as an institution, not individual Americans) is an outright threat to our sovereignty, meddle in too many peoples business, take advantage of us and the rest of the world and is generally the scum of the western earth.
  
  That the US hates Canada hasn’t changed.
  This is just total nonsense, like most of the garbage that you post here. Talk to Americans - they're embarrassed by how their government is treating Canada. We're close allies and our biggest trading partners. There is no animosity between our peoples and the only ones who say there is are our enemies trying to seed division.
  (This guy runs a Russian propaganda sub on Lemmy.ca, check his history.)
  Your comment fits into your low effort Russian astroturing campaign where everybody in the west is bad and hates each other and Russia is good and should be allowed to invade anyone they want. Fuck off.
Oh. Tariffs are back already, kinda, kinda not (an appeals court granted a temporary stay, so the tariff halting has halted).
Apparently, only $1B of Canadian goods would become tariff exempt.

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