A group representing users of imported steel filed Wednesday the first known legal challenge to steel tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump earlier this year.
With the lawsuit, taken to the US Court of International Trade in New York by the American Institute for International Steel (AISS) and two of its member companies, the plaintiffs are trying to overturn the decades-old trade law that allowed Trump to penalize imports of aluminum and steel.
The group argues Trump’s move is unconstitutional, adding that it rests on another constitutional flaw that lets Congress delegate trade powers to US presidents.
“Unlike most cases brought against actions of the Trump administration, it is Congress — through its delegation of unfettered discretion to the President in this statute — and not the President that is the violator of the Constitution,” Alan Morrison, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, said in a statement. “The President simply took advantage of the opportunity to impose his views on international trade on the American people, with nothing in the law to stop him.”
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