# Trump sued over Canadian tariffs in latest legal challenge

> A legal group that won against Trump's tariffs before has filed a new lawsuit challenging his fifty percent levy on Canadian goods.
- Title: Trump sued over Canadian tariffs in latest legal challenge
- Summary: A legal group that won against Trump's tariffs before has filed a new lawsuit challenging his fifty percent levy on Canadian goods. The Liberty Justice…
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- Source: BBC News — https://bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqrkyj13m588o
- Published: 2026-10-20T19:30:05.907+00:00
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- Topics: donald trump, tariffs, canada, liberty justice center, gellert global group, trade dispute, us court of international trade, news, world
## 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.
## Key takeaway

The Liberty Justice Center sued Trump over fifty percent tariffs on Canadian goods, arguing the White House exceeded its authority under a ninety-year-old law.