Trump’s 10% Global Tariffs Debated in Pivotal Court Hearing (1)

A group of small businesses and 24 mostly Democrat-led states urged US trade judges to toss out President Donald Trump’s latest global tariffs, arguing they were issued under a law that became outdated when the US ditched the gold standard decades ago.

At a US Court of International Trade hearing Friday in Manhattan, lawyers for the group urged a panel of judges to immediately set aside Trump’s Feb. 24 order placing a 10% tax on imports. The case involves Trump’s use of Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which had never previously been invoked. Trump has ...