Federal judge blocks 5 Trump tariff executive orders

A national justice successful Washington, D.C., sided with a Chicago-area artifact institution connected Thursday, blocking 5 enforcement orders signed by President Donald Trump that imposed tariffs connected Chinese imports.

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras determined the International Economic Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorize Trump to enforce the tariffs successful his enforcement orders.

Contreras granted a question for a preliminary injunction, filed by the artifact company, Learning Resources, Inc., which volition beryllium stayed for 14 days successful lawsuit the medication decides to entreaty the decision.

President Donald Trump defended his tariff argumentation successful an interrogation with NBC News connected Sunday, saying that helium would scope retired to CEOs similar Jeff Bezos if helium has disagreements implicit their effect to tariffs oregon different issues.  (NBC News)

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Trump announced his "Liberation Day" reciprocal tariff program connected April 2, imposing a 10% baseline tariff connected each countries.

In definite countries, hostile negotiations led to adjacent higher levies, with taxes connected Chinese imports reaching 145%.

Traders enactment connected the level of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) connected March 28, 2025, successful New York City. As President Trump's escalating commercialized warfare and caller signs of reinvigorated ostentation interest investors, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) dropped much than 700 points oregon astir 1.7%.  (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Rick Woldenberg, CEO of Learning Resources, said successful April the third-generation household concern that had been manufacturing successful China for 4 decades would look an astir 98% summation successful its tariff bill.

He said the $2.3 cardinal the institution paid successful 2024 would leap to $100.2 cardinal successful 2025. 

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"I privation I had $100 million," Woldenberg wrote successful a statement. "Honest to God, nary exaggeration: It feels similar the extremity of days."

China produces 97% of America’s imported babe carriages, 96% of its artificial flowers and umbrellas, 95% of its fireworks, 93% of its children’s coloring books and 90% of its combs, according to a study from the Macquarie concern bank.

Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent is seen earlier a gathering with Chinese officials connected tariffs successful Geneva connected May 10, 2025.  (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

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On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled the medication overstepped its authorization implicit tariffs nether IEEPA.

"The Constitution assigns Congress the exclusive powers to ‘lay and cod Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,’ and to ‘regulate Commerce with overseas Nations,’" the tribunal wrote successful its opinion. "The question successful the 2 cases earlier the tribunal is whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 ('IEEPA') delegates these powers to the President successful the signifier of authorization to enforce unlimited tariffs connected goods from astir each state successful the world."

Three judges, appointed by erstwhile Presidents Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and Trump, recovered IEEPA did not "confer specified unbounded authority."

President Donald Trump holds a illustration arsenic helium delivers remarks connected reciprocal tariffs during an lawsuit successful the Rose Garden entitled Make America Wealthy Again astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected April 2, 2025. Trump geared up to unveil sweeping caller tariffs successful a determination that threatens to ignite a devastating planetary commercialized war.  (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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The Trump medication appealed the determination to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is unclear what goods volition beryllium taxable to tariffs successful the meantime, Reuters reported.

"Foreign countries’ nonreciprocal attraction of the United States has fueled America’s historical and persistent commercialized deficits," White House spokesperson Kush Desai told FOX Business aft the decision. "These deficits person created a nationalist exigency that has decimated American communities, near our workers behind, and weakened our defence concern basal — facts that the tribunal did not dispute." 

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"It is not for unelected judges to determine however to decently code a nationalist emergency," Desai added. "President Trump pledged to enactment America First, and the Administration is committed to utilizing each lever of enforcement powerfulness to code this situation and reconstruct American Greatness."

FOX Business' Greg Wehner and Bill Mears, and Reuters contributed to this report.