Supreme Court declines to hear another Section 232 challenge

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to a lower court ruling that upheld presidential authority to impose national security tariffs on steel products. In 2018, then-President Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on steel imports from all countries other than Canada and Mexico under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. In 2020, he expanded those tariffs to cover steel derivatives, saying imports of those products were undermining the earlier tariffs. The Court of International...