The Supreme Court justices appeared sceptical this week that President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose sweeping reciprocal tariffs was legal. If the Court rules against Trump invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to justify those tariffs, we would expect the administration to use other statutes to apply tariffs. But none offer the same simplicity and flexibility to raise and lower these levies at will.
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