(Export Practitioner)—As of April 25, 2025, seven lawsuits have been filed challenging President Trump’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a 1977 statute traditionally used for targeted economic sanctions.
Peter Harrell, Non-Resident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, attorney, and host of the Security Economics Podcast, points out in a LinkedIn post that three lawsuits are in the Court of International Trade (CIT), a Customs venue, and the Government is seeking to have all cases resolved by the CIT. “That presumes that IEEPA is a customs statute, which the plaintiffs challenge,” he notes.
Bloomberg notes “steering the current cases on the same path will likely benefit the administration because they, too, would go through the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has historically been deferential to the authority of presidents to levy tariffs.”
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