Plaintiffs push back on DOJ’s ‘last-ditch’ argument for CIT to hear tariff suits

Importers aiming to challenge President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs outside the Court of International Trade are attacking the administration’s latest argument for sending their case there, saying it represents a “last-ditch effort” after repeated shifts in logic and would produce absurd results. The plaintiffs’ July 23 brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in an IEEPA suit known as Learning Resources, et al., v. Trump marks the latest clash over whether such cases...