The Supreme Court has delivered a major blow to President Donald Trump’s trade agenda, striking down some of his most sweeping global tariffs and reshaping the landscape of US trade policy. In a 6-3 ruling on Friday, the nation’s highest court said Trump overstepped his authority by using a decades-old emergency powers law to impose broad import taxes on nearly every country in the world. The decision targets tariffs enacted under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA — a law historically used to impose sanctions, not tariffs. While the ruling invalidates a core group of Trump’s trade…
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