00:00We go to the U.S., where on Friday the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump
00:05overstabbed his authority by imposing most of his step tariffs on global imports.
00:10Tariffs typically need to be approved by Congress, which has sold authority under the Constitution
00:17to levide taxes.
00:19However, Trump argued that he had the right to impose tariffs on trading partners
00:24under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act,
00:27which in some circumstances grants the President authority to regulate or prohibit international transactions
00:34during a national emergency.
00:36The Supreme Court reached its conclusion in a legal challenge by businesses affected by the tariffs
00:41and 12 U.S. states, and most of them democratically governed,
00:47against Trump's use of these laws to unilaterally impose the import taxes.
00:51The Court ruled 6-3 that a 1977 law designed to address national emergencies
00:57did not provide legal justification for most of the president's tariffs on countries across the world.
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