Warning that a series of judicial decisions that block the tariffs of President Donald Trump “interrupt sensitive and continuous negotiations with practically all commercial partners,” the Trump administration asked a Federal Court of Appeals on Monday to bloc an order last week that found that the radical tariffs were “illegal.”
In a lawsuit filed by two children’s toys companies, a federal judge in Washington, DC, ruled last week that Trump has no power to impose unilaterally “tariffs” to reorder the global economy. “
Issued less than 24 hours after a panel of judges in the International Trade Court issued its own decision that blocks Trump’s tariffs, the United States district judge, Rudolph Contreras, reached the same conclusion about the illegality of the rates, but issued a less wide order, only blocking the application of the rates against the two companies that filed the demand.
Subsequently, a Federal Court of Appeals temporarily delayed the decision of the International Trade Court.
Trump announced high -range tariffs in April in dozens of countries in a rose garden ceremony that called “day of release.”
In a presentation on Monday, the Trump administration argued that Judge Contreras’ ruling was defective and that it undermines the president while “the negotiations are currently at a delicate situation.”
President Donald Trump offers comments in Irvin Works of Us Steel Corporation in West Mfflin, Pennsylvania, May 30, 2025.
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“By maintaining invalid tariffs, the Usurpes District Court ruling the president’s authority and threatens to interrupt sensitive and continuous negotiations with practically all commercial partners by reducing the premise of these negotiations, which tariffs are a credible threat,” said the presentation.
The lawyers of the Department of Justice also argued that Judge Contreras lacks the jurisdiction to issue the decision because the legal disputes of the commercial policy belong to the International Trade Court.
