
President Donald Trump gestures after signing executive orders related to artificial intelligence during the "Winning the AI Race" Summit in Washington DC, US July 23, 2025. — Reuters
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NEW YORK: A divided American appeals court on Friday ruled that most of Donald Trump’s taxes were illegal, which used the Republican president’s levies as an important international economic policy tool.
The court allowed the Trump administration to stay in its place until October 14 to provide an appeal to the US Supreme Court.
The decision came as a legal battle on the independence of the Federal Reserve, which also seems to be a Supreme Court obliged, which has made an extraordinary legal legal demonstration this year on Trump’s entire economic policy.
In his second term, Trump has created a pillars of US foreign policy, and re -discussed trade agreements with political pressures and countries exporting goods to the United States.
The prices have taken advantage of the Trump administration to gain economic privileges from trade partners, but the fluctuations in the financial markets have also increased.
Trump expressed regret over the decision he called the “highly biased” court, and posting the truth on social: “If these rates ever go away, it will be a complete destruction for the country.”
However, he predicted the bridge, saying he expects the taxes “with the help of the Supreme Court” will benefit the country.
The 7-4 decision of the US court appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, in April, resolved the legal status of attributing Trump as “mutual” rates as part of his trade war, as well as a set of taxes against China, Canada and Mexico in February.
The democratic president appointed six judges and two judges in the majority, who disagreed, while Republican presidents appointed one judge and two dissenters in the majority.
The court’s decision does not affect the taxes issued under other legal authority, such as Trump’s taxes on imports of steel and aluminum.
‘Unusual and unusual’
Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Trump justified both the recent Levies’ seats, along with both prices. The IEEPA gives the president the authority to deal with “extraordinary and extraordinary” threats during the national emergency.
The court said, “This law gives the president an important authority to take several steps in response to the national emergency announced, but none of these action involves the authority to pay taxes, duties, or so on, or so on.”
“It is unlikely that the Congress intended to implement the IEPA to separate from its past and grant the president to impose unlimited powers.”
The 1977 law was historically used to impose sanctions on enemies or freeze their assets. Trump, who uses the IEPA to impose revenue, says the measures were justified in the wake of trade imbalance, which reduced the power of US manufacturing and the cross -border flow.
Trump’s Department of Justice has argued that the law allows rates under emergency provisions that allow the president to “regularly” “regularly” or stop them.
In April, Trump announced the national emergency on the fact that US imports more than exports, as the nation has done for decades. Trump said the permanent trade deficit is damaging US manufacturing capabilities and military preparations.
Trump said February’s revenue against China, Canada and Mexico was appropriate because they were not doing enough to prevent illegal fantasy from crossing the US borders, the claims denied the countries.
More uncertainty
With the Senior for Strategic and International Studies, former senior commerce department official, William Renashch, said the Trump administration was braking for the decision. “It is common knowledge that the administration is expecting the results and is likely to prepare a plan B to maintain revenue through other laws.”
After an hour, there was little response to the decision in stock trading.
“The last thing in the market or corporate America is more uncertain on trade,” said Hogan, chief market strategic art of B. Rally Wealth.
Trump has also been closed in a legal battle to remove the Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, which potentially ends the central bank’s independence.
“I think he has put Trump’s entire economic agenda on a possible confrontation course with the Supreme Court,” said Josh Lipsky, the Atlantic Council’s international economy.
The 6-3 Conservative majority of the Supreme Court has issued a series in favor of Trump’s second-term agenda, but in recent years, the president has also opposed the expanded interpretation of the old laws to provide new powers to the presidents.
The appeal court is decided by two cases, one by five small US business and the other through the US states led by Democratic, in which it was argued that the IEEPA does not allow revenue.
The Constitution gives the Congress the authority to issue tax and taxes, not the president, and a delegation of this authority should be clear and limited to both, according to the cases.
New York -based US court’s international trade on May 28 ruled against Trump’s tariff policies, saying the president had exceeded his authority when he imposed both challenged rates. A panel of three judges included a judge, which was appointed by Trump in his first term.
Another Washington court ruled that the IEEPA does not authorize Trump’s rates, and the government has also appealed for the decision. At least eight legalism has challenged Trump’s tariff policies, which has been filed by the state of California.