CIT freezes further IEEPA tariff litigation pending ‘final’ decision in appeals

The Court of International Trade is pausing two challenges to President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs that were not part of a decision last month when CIT judges declared the duties unlawful, denying plaintiffs’ bid to take part in the appeal of that ruling alongside a coalition of small businesses and Democratic attorneys general. In separate, single-sentence orders issued June 16, CIT stayed both of its still-pending IEEPA cases “pending a final, unappealable decision” in the joint litigation...