Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Section 232 steel tariffs

摘要

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case brought by U.S. importers challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration's national security-based tariffs on steel. Before petitioning the Supreme Court, the American Institute for International Steel in 2018 filed a lawsuit in the Court of International Trade against the Trump administration's use of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to impose 25 percent tariffs on steel imports from various trading partners. AIIS claimed Section 232 improperly delegated Congress' authority to federal agencies because the statute lacked "intelligible" guidance, a concept known as the non-delegation doctrine.