CIT Finds Section 232 Tariffs Constitutional
The Court of International Trade on March 25 denied a bid to declare Section 232 tariffs unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought by the American Institute of International Steel and other steel importers. A 1976 Supreme Court decision had found Section…
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232 to be a permissible delegation by Congress of its tariffs-setting powers to the president, and while the three judge CIT panel expressed some concerns, they were “beyond this court’s power to address, given the Supreme Court’s decision,” CIT said. Judge Gary Katzmann penned a separate “dubitante” – a step below a dissent -- noting that, while he agreed that the trade court could not deviate from the Supreme Court’s ruling, he had “grave doubts” about its real world implications.