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Mr. Trump has used this tool to impose duties on foreign cars and steel, and propose additional tariffs on semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and other products. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Trump used Section 232 to impose duties on cars steel propose tariffs on semiconductors pharmaceuticals.

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The available tools include a provision of trade law known as “Section 232,” which allows the president to impose duties related to national security. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Section 232 allows president to impose duties related to national security.

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During Mr. Trump’s first term, his own advisers raised questions about whether IEEPA, which is typically used to issue foreign sanctions, could be used to levy broad tariffs. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Trump's advisers questioned whether IEEPA could be used to levy broad tariffs.

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Even if Mr. Trump appeals to the Supreme Court and loses, he still retains significant tariff powers. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Even if Trump loses Supreme Court appeal he retains tariff powers.

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No president before Mr. Trump had invoked the economic emergency law to tax imports. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal , Historical

Simplified: No president before Trump invoked IEEPA to tax imports.

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“It seems unlikely that Congress intended, in enacting IEEPA, to depart from its past practice and grant the president unlimited authority to impose tariffs,” a majority of judges wrote in their rulin... 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Congress unlikely intended IEEPA to grant president unlimited tariff authority judges wrote.

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Jeffrey Schwab, the director of litigation at the Liberty Justice Center, which represented small businesses that brought one of the lawsuits, said the decision underscored that the president “doesn’t... 0.900

👤 Jeffrey Schwab 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Jeffrey Schwab said decision underscored president doesn't have authority under IEEPA.

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In its 7-4 ruling, issued late Friday, a majority on the court determined for a second time that the breadth of the tariffs the president had imposed was illegal. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Court's 7-4 ruling determined president's tariffs breadth was illegal.

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In May, a federal trade court agreed, invalidating many of the president’s duties on grounds that the law did not grant him “unbounded authority” to wage his global trade war. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Federal trade court invalidated president's duties law did not grant unbounded authority.

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Mr. Trump’s claims of seemingly unlimited trade power have elicited legal challenges from small businesses and states, which said they were harmed financially by taxes on foreign goods that the presid... 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Trump's claims elicited legal challenges from businesses states harmed financially.

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Many leading conservative and libertarian lawyers and scholars have argued that the president’s duties were issued illegally. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Lawyers scholars argued president's duties were issued illegally.

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Otherwise, he could seek to enact tariffs with the support of Congress. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: President can enact tariffs with Congress support.

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Without IEEPA, the president would be limited in the duties he could apply, and the manner and speed in which they could be imposed. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Without IEEPA president limited in duties manner speed of imposition.

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The president invoked its powers to combat what he described as a widening set of threats, from persistent trade deficits to the flow of fentanyl into the United States. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: President invoked IEEPA to combat trade deficits fentanyl flow.

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To impose the duties, Mr. Trump leaned on IEEPA, a decades-old economic emergency law that does not even mention the word tariff. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal

Simplified: Trump leaned on IEEPA to impose duties IEEPA does not mention tariff.

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They include some of his toughest duties on China, Canada and Mexico, and his so-called reciprocal tariffs, which Mr. Trump later revised and began collecting this month. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Economics

Simplified: Tariffs include duties on China Canada Mexico reciprocal tariffs revised collected this month.

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The president, who has spent months insisting that his tariffs would make America “rich again,” has invoked the specter of the Great Depression if his ability to impose levies is curtailed and if the... 0.800

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Economics

Simplified: President insisted tariffs would make America rich invoked Great Depression specter.

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The appeals court ruling implicates a vast set of tariffs, some of which date back to the beginning of Mr. Trump’s presidency. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Economics

Simplified: Appeals court ruling implicates vast set of tariffs dating back to Trump's presidency.

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Among the deals they cited was an agreement with the European Union, which made favorable concessions to escape even higher U.S. taxes on its goods. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Economics

Simplified: EU agreement cited made concessions to escape higher U.S. taxes.

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The law has typically been reserved for sanctions and embargoes against other nations. 0.900

👤 Tony Romm and Ana Swanson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Legal , Historical

Simplified: IEEPA law typically reserved for sanctions embargoes against other nations.

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