Court backs Trump on rescinding de minimis tariff exemption
A federal trade court agreed Thursday that President Trump lawfully ended a tariff exemption for low-cost goods last year. Trump did so by invoking the same 1970s-era emergency statute that the Supreme Court ruled he could not use to authorize his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariff.
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Brimstone Report is tracking this as a curated politics brief. The source report from The Hill says: A federal trade court agreed Thursday that President Trump lawfully ended a tariff exemption for low-cost goods last year. Trump did so by invoking the same 1970s-era emergency statute that the Supreme Court ruled he could not use to authorize his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariff.
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- Published: Aug 14, 2026, 1:31 PM UTC
- Coverage area: Politics
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