Trump’s latest tariffs face a fresh set of legal hurdles

Here are the key issues in the court fight over Trump’s newest tariffs after the Supreme Court’s ruling.

President Donald Trump is projecting confidence about his backup tariffs. | Jon Cherry/AP

Just three weeks after the Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a stinging defeat over the sweeping tariffs he imposed last year, the legal battle over his first move to replace those import taxes is heating up.

Democratic attorneys general and governors from 24 states and a libertarian group representing two small businesses filed their first legal briefs Friday asking a federal trade court to strike down the 10 percent tariffs Trump imposed on most U.S. trading partners in February.

Trump promised to hike those tariffs to 15 percent, but hasn’t yet done so.

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