Reuters, Law360, International Trade Today Cite AG Trade Law Post on Limits to Section 232 Action
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Several media outlets have quoted from a recent Akin Gump AG Trade Law blog post in articles looking at President Trump’s power to invoke tariffs.
The Reuters article “Trump’s ‘Section 232’ autos tariff authority runs out of time, experts say” reports that President Trump’s ability to impose Section 232 tariffs on imports of foreign-made cars and auto parts has lapsed after he declined to take action last week ahead of a deadline to do so. This follows a ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade, which handles appeals of U.S. duty determinations.
Devin Sikes, counsel in Akin Gump’s international trade practice, wrote in the blog post that the case lays the groundwork for future challenges to Section 232 cases.
In Law360’s “Trump's Tariff Powers Take A Glancing Blow From Trade Court,” Sikes is quoted as writing that, in just one opinion, “the landscape surrounding national security tariffs has undergone a dramatic shift.” The ruling in Transpacific Steel LLC v. United States, Sikes continues, “may change the way that President Trump and his successors employ Section 232 to address imports that purportedly threaten to impair the nation's security.”
In the International Trade Today article “Lawyers Wonder If Section 301 Investigation on Auto Imports Is Next,” Sikes is quoted as observing that the Court of International Trade “emphatically disagreed [with the Trump administration], holding that ‘[t]he President’s expansive view of his power under [S]ection 232 is mistaken, and at odds with the language of the statute, its legislative history, and its purpose.’”
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