The US president, Donald Trump, announced in April radical tariffs for almost all its commercial partners, with a generalized minimum of 10%, in addition to higher levies for dozens of economies, including China and the EU, which since then have been suspended.
The International Trade Court, composed of three judges, ruled on Wednesday, May 28 that Trump It has overreach in its functions and prohibited most of the tariffs announced since it assumed the position.
The opinion applies to taxes to Canada, Mexico and China, which Trump imposed to encourage them to combat fentanyl traffic, and the additional encumbrances of April 2 over all products that enter the United States, a minimum of 10% and up to 50%, depending on the country of origin.
However, the ruling maintains intact tariffs of 25% for automotive, steel and aluminum industries.
The Trump administration lawyers have filed an appeal against the sentence, which gives the White House 10 days to complete the process of paralysis of the affected tariffs.
Nothing has changed
Recently, it was known that a Court of Appeals He lifted on Thursday the blockade ordered the previous day by another court to a good part of the tariffs Taxes by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to his business partners
“Nothing has really changed,” said Trump’s commercial advisor, Peter Navarro, to Bloomberg Television.
“If someone thinks this took the government by surprise, think twice,” he added.
Kevin Hasett, director of the National Economic Council, told Fox Business that Trump’s government is confident of winning the appeal.
According to him, they have other options that would take a couple of months to be implemented, but for now they will not.
Hasset estimates that the “setbacks” for the decisions of “activist judges” will not affect negotiations with commercial partners and said there are three agreements about to be completed.
Trump argues that commercial deficits and the threat that represents the influx of drugs constitute a “national emergency” that justifies the generalized tariffs rejected by the Court.
In the words of the White House spokesman, Kush Desai: It does not correspond to the non -elected judges to decide how to adequately address a national emergency.
Guatemala is freed from tariffs?
This Thursday, during the Press Conference of the Government of Guatemala called La Ronda, the Minister of Economy, Gabriela García, who integrates the public-private delegation that traveled to the United States to seek to eliminate the 10% tariff to the imports of Guatemalan products, commented that the first meeting they held was with the head of the USTR, ambassador Jamieson Greer.
In addition, Garcia said that it was agreed that in the next two weeks the Office of the United States Commercial Representative (USTR) will evaluate the case of Guatemala, given the country’s interest to initiate formal conversations for an agreement on the tariff issue.
Regarding the decision of a US court.
In addition, the Mineco responded to Press Free that they have knowledge of the decision of the specialized court through what they have published different media, therefore, they are waiting for official communication.
In that sense, it is still uncertain if Guatemala is without the tariff from the decision of the Specialized Court. Everything will depend on the legal resources that are brought, said Juan Carlos Zapata yesterday.
The Secretary of Social Communication of the Presidency, Santiago Palomo, explained that after the resolution of the mentioned court, there are still legal measures that those interested can file as part of the development of the process, but also did not confirm the current status of the 10% tariff set to Guatemala since last April.