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White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro warned that the fate of the United States rests in the hands of the Supreme Court, as justices prepare to rule on President Donald Trump’s use of a 1977 emergency powers law to justify sweeping tariffs on America’s trading partners.

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00:00White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro issued a stock warning on Monday saying the fate of the United States rests in the U.S. Supreme Court's hand.
00:09The Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on President Donald Trump's use of the 1977 Emergency Powers Law to impose sweeping tariffs on most trading partners.
00:18This case is arguably the single most important economic case that has ever come before the Supreme Court.
00:31If the lower court's ruling is upheld, President Trump has correctly said that will be the end of the United States
00:39because it will be impossible to defend ourselves from the fentanyl poisoning and all of the trade environment
00:47which is hollowing out our supply chains and creating very dangerous problems for the American people.
00:54A divided U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal,
01:00undercutting the Republican President's use of the levies as a key economic policy tool.
01:04The court allowed the tariffs to remain in place through October 14 to give the Trump administration a chance to file an appeal with the Supreme Court.
01:13The 7-4 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.
01:18addressed the legality of what Trump calls reciprocal tariffs imposed as part of his trade war in April,
01:23as well as a separate set of tariffs imposed in February against China, Canada and Mexico aimed at halting imports of fentanyl.
01:31Navarro also weighed on India after the U.S. has targeted India for its Russian oil purchases,
01:38where President Donald Trump imposing tariffs on Indian exports to U.S. to discourage the country's crude buying.
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