President Donald Trump’s trade policy has faced pushback in one form or another since its rollout, but those issues now rest with the nation’s high court.
We spoke with RealAg Radio host Shaun Haney for a Canadian perspective on what is at stake as the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) prepares to hear arguments regarding the legitimacy of Trump’s tariff implementations.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments surrounding reciprocal tariffs as soon as the first week of November. The November date is a quick turnaround for that court. The Trump Administration had asked the justices to fast-track the process, following a lower court ruling that reciprocal tariffs are illegal.
“President Trump loves tariffs, and he’s going to find any sort of way to potentially use them to negotiate and create revenue from them,” Haney explains.
He said he’s not holding his breath for the court to turn its back on the White House.
“There are other measures for the White House to impose tariffs on a country,” Haney said Wednesday on Market Day Report. “I think the idea that, if the Supreme Court rules against the White House, tariffs just go away. I think that would probably be a little bit of foolish thinking. There are still going to be tariffs.”
The White House argues that the high court needs to step in soon, saying the President did have the power to use an emergency law to impose those higher duties. An appeals court has allowed them to stay in place until the justices make their ruling.
