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Tariff authority shifts after Supreme Court ruling, keeping inflation risk alive

The administration moved from the Supreme Court-invalidated IEEPA approach to other trade powers, with additional duties of 10% or 12.5% applying to goods from 60 trading partners by July 24.

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CryptoSlate reports that the Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 20 that the emergency law Trump had relied on, IEEPA, does not authorize presidents to impose tariffs. While the court did not ban tariffs outright, it limited that specific legal pathway, forcing the administration to rebuild the tariff system using other authorities.

According to CryptoSlate, the administration returned to other trade provisions in federal statutes and spent the following months reconstructing tariff implementation, including investigations, hearings, country files, product schedules, legal findings, and customs instructions. By July 24, goods from 60 trading partners were again passing through an American tariff barrier.

CryptoSlate says that most of those goods faced additional duties of either 10% or 12.5%, though exemptions and existing trade agreements make the final impact less uniform than the headline rates. The story also links this kind of import policy to inflation, Treasury yields, the dollar, and institutional risk limits, factors that can influence BTC market conditions.

CryptoSlate frames the policy shift as a reason Bitcoin investors may face a more persistent macro setup than a single, easily removed “emergency tariff button,” noting the resulting system could be more tedious and harder to unwind than the prior approach.

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