Trump’s new tariffs hit with lawsuit 

President Trump’s new tariffs were hit a legal challenge Friday from two small businesses who are represented by part of the legal team that toppled Trump’s earlier tariffs at the Supreme Court. 

The new surcharge, between 10 percent and 12.5 percent on goods imported from 60 trading partners, is the administration’s latest attempt to unilaterally impose the president’s tariff agenda under existing laws. 

Just like the previous statutes Trump invoked, the lawsuit argues the administration is now stretching Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 too far. 

“It is not a freestanding authorization to tax substantially all imports from substantially all trading partners,” the lawsuit reads. 

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.

The administration announced the Section 301 tariffs on Thursday, just as the........

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