President Donald Trump raised the global duty on imports into the United States to 15 percent on Saturday, doubling down on his promise to maintain his aggressive tariff policy a day after the Supreme Court ruled much of it illegal.
Trump said on his Truth Social platform that after a thorough review of Fridays extraordinarily anti-American decision by the court to rein in his tariff program, the administration was hiking the import levies to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15 level.
Shortly after the courts 6-3 ruling that rejected the presidents authority to impose tariffs under a 1977 economic emergency powers act, Trump had initially announced a new 10 percent global levy by invoking a different legal avenue.
