Trump’s tariffs reinstated

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Trump’s tariffs were initially banned – before being overturned within a day. A federal court had blocked the tariffs on Wednesday night after three judges ruled that Trump had overstepped his authority when introducing them. But just a day later the decision was temporarily paused after a federal appeal court reinstated the tariffs. The White House now says they will “win this battle in court”. We explain what it all means and dig deeper into the legal aspect of the economic measures.

Also on the programme: Israel has announced a major expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. More than twenty new settlements have been approved. We hear from a Settler and a Palestinian living in the West Bank. And, Elon Musk has left the US Department of Government Efficiency, also known as Doge. We speak to someone who was also given the task of ‘reinventing government’ efficiency during Bill Clinton’s time in power to discuss how effective Musk really was in his job.

(Photo: IBEX rises 0.49 percent pending the blocking of Trump's tariffs, Madrid, Spain Credit: VEGA ALONSO DEL VAL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. I'm Rebecca Kesbby.
0:10.6	Our top story tonight, what are the legal and political options available to President Trump
0:16.1	now that a specialist federal court has blocked his sweeping trade tariffs, the Court of International Trade, made up of three judges, one of whom was appointed by Mr Trump himself, have ruled that Mr. Trump's misused emergency economic powers legislation when he declared blanket tariffs last month.
0:35.2	The judges ruled that only Congress has the power to regulate international commerce.
0:41.9	Well, Mr Trump's team immediately said it was going to appeal that.
0:45.6	And in the past 30 minutes or so, breaking news that a US federal appeals court
0:52.0	has temporarily suspended a ruling that blocked many of President Trump's recently imposed trade tariffs.
1:00.1	The White House is seeking to overturn Wednesday's decision completely.
1:04.7	We're going to see if we can get a live response to that in a moment from our team in New York.
1:11.6	But first, earlier today, supporters of Mr. Trump were playing down the significance of the initial
1:18.0	blocking of the court, the international court of trade there in the US.
1:24.5	Everett Eisenstadt was deputy director of the National Economic Council in the
1:29.5	U.S. in Donald Trump's first term. He said that that initial decision was a setback, but that Mr.
1:35.5	Trump had other options. It's not the end of the story. There will be appealed. In fact, the
1:40.3	administration has already filed an appeal. Obviously, this is a big impact on the near-term
1:46.1	agenda for President Trump, but it's definitely not over. There are other tools available to President
1:51.4	Trump to do similar actions. So his toolkit is not empty by any means. So what options does Mr.
2:00.3	Trump's team have now beyond a legal appeal?
2:03.1	I've been speaking to Lauren Bartels, Professor of International Trade Law,
2:07.2	at the University of Cambridge here in the UK.
2:10.3	One tool is actually mentioned in this court judgment,
2:14.1	and that was one of the reasons that the Liberation Day tariffs were said to be
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