(Arkansas Democrat Gazette)—A federal appeals court agreed on Tuesday to allow President Donald Trump to maintain many of his tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, extending a pause granted shortly after another panel of judges ruled in late May that the import taxes were illegal.
The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington delivered an important but interim victory for the Trump administration, which had warned that any interruption to its steep duties could undercut the president in talks around the world.
But the government still must convince the judges the president appropriately used a set of emergency powers when he implemented the centerpiece of his economic agenda this year…
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