'Provocative', say analysts after US court blocks move

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Analysts believe that the actions of the U.S. trade court that blocked Trump's tariffs from going into effect could be "provocative" to the president.

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00:00Meanwhile, analysts believe that the actions of the US Trade Court that blocked Trump's

00:05tariffs from going into effect could be provocative to the president.

00:30As much as I don't like tariffs and want to see them gone, the sort of legal interference

00:37in the elected president of the day, I think can backfire.

00:42So I'm a little bit worried about it, even though, you know, obviously I'd prefer there

00:46not to be tariffs.

00:47It's interesting because the court has said that the president sort of overstepped and

00:53that he used emergency powers being trade deficits, which, you know, are really not an emergency

00:59at all in economics, but that probably means, you know, perhaps if he puts economic sanctions

01:05on Russia or Iran, to what extent can the courts interfere in that, they may decide that sanctions

01:11is of geopolitical significance, but tariffs are not.

01:16So it does get us into some murky waters, I think, legally into what's the role of the

01:22president and the Congress as opposed to the courts.

01:25It is very hard to predict what will happen and what happens if, for example, the administration

01:32chooses not to comply with the ruling of the court.

01:35We have seen tension between court rulings and the current administration in the past.

01:43So it is, again, uncharted waters, very hard to tell what is happening.

01:51But at least this round, the administration and Donald Trump did not win.

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