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    June 25, 2019

    Supreme Court Declines to Hear AIIS Tariff Challenge

    Written by Sandy Williams

    The Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a challenge to the president’s use of Section 232 tariffs, declining to review a March CIT ruling.

    In June 2018, the American Institute of International Steel and two of its member companies challenged the constitutionality of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, charging the act provides the president too much discretionary control over tariffs and “violates the doctrine of separation of powers and checks and balances that the Constitution protects.”

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