{"id":5165,"date":"2025-04-08T20:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/expect-more-legal-heat-for-trumps-latest-round-of-tariffs-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:56:04","slug":"expect-more-legal-heat-for-trumps-latest-round-of-tariffs-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/expect-more-legal-heat-for-trumps-latest-round-of-tariffs-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect More Legal Heat for Trump&#8217;s Latest Round of Tariffs, Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>President Donald Trump flexed his office\u2019s national security powers to impose across-the-board duties on virtually all goods entering the U.S. But after relative silence over his last tariffs, his new ones may have stretched the power of the presidency too broadly to go unchecked, experts say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>On April 2, which Trump dubbed \u201cLiberation Day,\u201d the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/04\/regulating-imports-with-a-reciprocal-tariff-to-rectify-trade-practices-that-contribute-to-large-and-persistent-annual-united-states-goods-trade-deficits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>announced<\/u><\/a> a 10% tariff on imports from nearly all countries, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Annex-I.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>several dozen governments<\/u><\/a> singled out for higher duty rates stretching up to 50%. To impose the new duties, Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a decades-old statute authorizing the president to set new trade policies in response to a declared national emergency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump flexed his office\u2019s national security powers to impose across-the-board duties on virtually all goods entering the U.S. But after relative silence over his last tariffs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[218,2583,5436,215,136,4707,963],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-expect","tag-experts","tag-heat","tag-latest","tag-legal","tag-tariffs","tag-trumps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}