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The Trump administration is being sued over the imposition of 50 per cent tariffs on an array of Canadian goods, the latest in a string of cases that broadly accuse the president of trying to achieve his trade agenda by asserting a taxing power that belongs to Congress.
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that → sue → Congress
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, comes amid an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and one of its largest trading partners.
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lawsuit → file → partners
The food import business that sued argues President Donald Trump lacked authority to invoke a never-before-used section of U.S. law to order the levies against Canada and that this is part of a trend of unlawful tariff actions by the administration.
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this → sue → administration
The suit centers on tariffs imposed under Section 338 of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which took effect at the end of August after weeks of negotiations aimed at lowering trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada.
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which → center → U.S.
Negotiators had appeared to agree on the broad terms of a preliminary deal before it fell apart.
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it → appear → deal
The initial 50 per cent tariffs applied to roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods, and were followed by later presidential actions to alter and expand the list of covered products.
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tariffs → apply → products
Prime Minister Mark Carney responded with retaliatory tariffs, which took effect on Sept. 8, and the Trump administration eventually excluded certain Canadian goods, including motorcycles, alcoholic beverages and whey products, from being imported to the U.S. at all.
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administration → respond → U.S.
Section 338 was meant to address discrimination against U.S. commerce, but the challengers contend that Congress “abandoned” the statute several years later in favour of a more “comprehensive scheme” and that no president ever issued tariffs under it.
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president → mean → it
Even if the statute is still operative, the suit alleges that Trump’s rationale for the Canadian tariffs failed to meet the necessary criteria and that the 50 per cent rate isn’t tethered to the law’s requirement that it “offset” the actual “burden or disadvantage.”
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The challenger, Gellert Global Group Corp., specializes in food imports, including Canadian cheese that is subject to the Section 338 tariffs.
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that → specialize → tariffs
The case was brought by Liberty Justice Center, a nonprofit involved in earlier rounds of litigation against Trump’s tariffs.
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case → bring → tariffs
“No president should have the power to pull a dormant statute off the shelf and use it to impose sweeping tariffs or import bans without the limits Congress required,” Liberty Justice Center Chairman Sara Albrecht said in a statement.
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Albrecht → have → statement
Following the lawsuit filing on Tuesday, an administration official who wasn’t named said in an email that Canada continues to discriminate against U.S. industry, including dairy, alcoholic beverages and auto exports, and that the Trump administration would defend the president’s actions in court.
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administration → follow → court
The president has faced a slew of legal challenges to his tariff policies.
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president → face → policies
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down his first attempt at global tariffs last year under an economic emergency powers law, a loss that has forced customs authorities to refund the US$166 billion collected from importers before the justices ruled, plus interest.
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justices → strike → importers
A court fight over the president’s second attempt at multicountry tariffs was pending when those levies expired in July.
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levies → pende → July
The trade court is poised to rule in the coming weeks on the fate of Trump’s third round of global tariffs on dozens of economies under a provision of U.S. trade law known as Section 301 that deals with forced labor concerns.
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that → poise → concerns
A three-judge panel heard arguments in late September.
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panel → hear → September
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