Trump faces new tariff lawsuit

The Liberty Justice Center filed suit challenging fifty percent tariffs on twenty billion dollars of Canadian goods imposed after trade talks broke down in August.

The company fighting back

Gellert Global Group, a New Jersey food business, pays fifty percent tariffs on Canadian cheese and faces Canadian retaliatory tariffs on American cheese it sells north of the border.

The business impact

Co-chief executive Thomas Gellert said the tariffs disrupt relationships built over generations and create costs and uncertainty that ripple through the entire supply chain.

“These tariffs disrupt those relationships overnight and create costs and uncertainty that ripple through the entire supply chain.”

The legal argument

The Liberty Justice Center argues the White House used Section 338 of the nineteen thirty Tariff Act without following a required thirty-day waiting period before imposing levies.

Power belongs to Congress

Sara Albrecht, chief executive of the Liberty Justice Center, said no president should have power to impose sweeping tariffs without limits Congress required.

“No president should have the power to pull a dormant statute off the shelf and use it to impose sweeping tariffs or import bans without the limits Congress required.”

Fourth case against Trump tariffs

This is the Liberty Justice Center's fourth lawsuit against Trump's tariffs, following a successful case in February that struck down sweeping tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.