Don Farrell says the government has been consistent in its view that tariffs on Australian imports to the US are unjustified
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Australia will continue to push Donald Trump to abandon his administration’s tariff regime entirely, after a US court blocked the president’s “liberation day” tariffs from coming into effect.
The Manhattan-based court of international trade said the US constitution gives the Congress exclusive powers to regulate commerce with other countries, and ruled that power was not superseded by the president’s self-declared “emergency” he cited to safeguard the US economy.
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