Donald Trump cuts all US trade with Spain over Iran war dispute | The Jerusalem Post
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"We're going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain," the US president said.
  • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    That aside, his ability to impose tariffs without congress approval was just limited, right?

    I’m not a US law expert but it would be weird if he couldn’t set a 20% tariff but was allowed to stop trading with a country completely.

    I mean, following that line of reasoning he shouldn’t even be able to wage a war just like that, but humor me here…

    • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      21 minutes ago

      He actually can implement temporary sanctions but afaik they also fall into another emergency power provision and I don’t know if they can override existing trade deals from congress.

      • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        I thought that was under a different legal pretext that caps them at max 15% and for a limited time