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   From: rolf@msnbc.com   
      
   Hours after signing a proclamation that would implement a global 10%   
   tariff following the Supreme Court's decision to strike down most of his   
   levies, President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would raise those   
   tariffs to 15%.   
      
   Trump made his announcement in a social media post Saturday where he   
   again railed against the high court for what he argued was a   
   "ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American   
   decision."   
      
   "During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will   
   determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs, which will   
   continue our extraordinarily successful process of Making America Great   
   Again -- GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!," he posted without giving more   
   details.   
      
   The 15% rate is the upper limit allowed under Section 122 of the Trade   
   Act of 1974.   
      
   On Friday evening, Trump signed an executive order that raised lowered   
   tariffs on almost every country outside of the U.S. to 10%.   
      
   According to the order, the new tariff on global imports will take   
   effect Tuesday, however, it is not immediately known if the new 15% rate   
   would begin on that day.   
      
   Earlier Friday, Trump previewed his alternate plan to impose tariffs   
   under a different legal authority, lambasting the Supreme Court's   
   decision as "deeply disappointing."   
      
   "Other alternatives will now be used to replace the ones that the court   
   incorrectly rejected," Trump told reporters in the White House briefing   
   room. "We have alternatives, great alternatives, could be more money.   
   We'll take in more money and we'll be a lot stronger for it."   
      
   But such tariffs can only last for 150 days without congressional   
   approval. When asked about that limitation, Trump claimed he could "do   
   pretty much what we want to do."   
      
   Pressed more broadly on whether he was going to ask Congress (where   
   Republicans currently hold a majority in the House and Senate) to take   
   additional action on tariffs, Trump said he didn't believe he needed to.   
      
   Neal Katyal, the lead attorney who challenged the president's tariffs,   
   responded to the announcement on X and pushed back against Trump relying   
   on the 15% statute.   
      
   "Seems hard for the President to rely on the 15 percent statute (sec   
   122) when his DOJ in our case told the Court the opposite: 'Nor does   
   [122] have any obvious application here, where the concerns the   
   President identified in declaring an emergency arise from trade   
   deficits, which are conceptually distinct from balance-of-payments   
   deficits,'" Katyal said.   
      
   "If he wants sweeping tariffs, he should do the American thing and go to   
   Congress. If his tariffs are such a good idea, he should have no problem   
   persuading Congress. That's what our Constitution requires," he added.   
      
   The new global tariff will apply to countries that already struck trade   
   deals with the U.S., according to a White House official.   
      
   The official said that the countries covered under the 10% rate include   
   the United Kingdom, India, Japan and the European Union -- though the   
   list was not exhaustive.   
      
   This would lower tariffs on many deals he has negotiated; for example,   
   the trade deals set tariff rates at 15% with Japan and 18% with India.   
      
   "This really is a sort of Band-Aid tariff," Erica York, vice president   
   of federal tax policy at the Tax Foundation, told ABC News. "We know   
   that these tariffs can't go higher than 15% for the next 150 days, but   
   we have no idea what's coming after that."   
      
   York stresses that even without the IEEPA authority to impose tariffs,   
   Trump's 15% levies "maintains quite a high rate on US imports compared   
   to where we were before Trump came into office."   
      
   The Tax Foundation estimates that the tax burden on American households   
   with this new tariff rate will be about $700 in 2026, compared to $1,000   
   in 2025.   
      
   "There's a lot of chaos and uncertainty, and that itself can take a toll   
   on business decisions and on financial planning. All in all, the policy   
   environment right now is not one that's conducive to growth," York said.   
      
   A fact sheet from the White House laid out a list of exemptions from the   
   new tariffs, including on foods like beef, pharmaceuticals, cars and   
   some electronics.   
      
   Imports from Canada and Mexico that fall under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada   
   trade agreement struck during Trump's first term in office also will not   
   face the new 10% tariff.   
      
   Trump also signed another executive order extending a suspension of   
   what's known as the de minimis exemption, which previously allowed low   
   value goods under $800 to be shipped the U.S. duty-free. Trump first   
   suspended the de minimis exemption last year. The new order implements   
   the 10% tariffs on those goods, which often come from retailers, such as   
   Shein and Temu.   
      
   The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling marked a major blow to what has been the   
   cornerstone of Trump's economic agenda in his second term and one of his   
   longtime political goals. Trump publicly lobbied the court for months to   
   rule in his favor.   
      
   The court's majority deemed that the International Emergency Economic   
   Powers Act (IEEPA) does not give him the power to unilaterally impose   
   tariffs. Congress, not the president, has the power to impose tariffs   
   and taxes, the majority concluded.   
      
   "I'm ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed, for   
   not having the courage to do what's right for our country," Trump said.   
      
   Three conservative justices joined the liberal justices in invalidating   
   the IEEPA tariffs, including two justices nominated by Trump: Justices   
   Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch. The opinion was delivered by Chief   
   Justice John Roberts.   
      
   Further attacking the court, Trump said "they're just being fools and   
   lapdogs for the RINOs and the radical left Democrats." He said that the   
   families of the conservative justices who ruled against the   
   administration should be embarrassed, and called the liberal justices on   
   the court a "disgrace to our nation."   
      
   Trump said that because of the ruling, "Foreign countries that have been   
   ripping us off for years are ecstatic. They're so happy, and they're   
   dancing in the streets, but they won't be dancing for long that, I can   
   assure you."   
      
   The president also said he will start investigations under Section 301   
   of the 1974 Trade Act, though he did not specify which countries or   
   sectors they would target. These investigations can take weeks or   
   months, and are used in response to an adverse trade policy taken up by   
   another country.   
      
   "We're going forward," Trump said.   
      
   Trump congratulated Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett   
   Kavanaugh for their dissents in this case. He specifically praised   
   Kavanaugh, saying his "stock has gone so up."   
      
   >From the White House briefing room podium, Trump read aloud part of   
   Kavanaugh's dissent in which the justice said the court's decision   
   "might not substantially constrain a President's ability to order   
   tariffs going forward."   
      
   Kavanaugh also noted in his dissent the silence from the court's   
      
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