US Supreme Court rejecting Trump's global tariffs wins applause at home, abroad

The U.S. Supreme Court's Friday decision to strike down most of President Donald Trump's global tariffs has won immediate applause both at home and abroad.

Those hailing the Supreme Court ruling include the U.S. National Retail Federation, the chair of the European Parliament's International Trade Committee, and senior Canadian officials.

The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling on Friday, determined that the executive branch exceeded its authority by using emergency powers to impose import taxes on most trading partners, officially striking down most of the global tariffs Trump has introduced since April 2025.

The U.S. National Retail Federation, in a statement released on its official website on Friday, said the ruling provides "much-needed certainty for U.S. businesses and manufacturers, enabling global supply chains to operate without ambiguity."

"Clear and consistent trade policy is essential for economic growth, creating jobs and opportunities for American families. We urge the lower court to ensure a seamless process to refund the tariffs to U.S. importers," said the statement.

Also on Friday, Bernd Lange, chairman of the European Parliament's International Trade Committee, said on social media X that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling sends "a positive signal for the rule of law."

"Judges have shown that even an U.S. president does not operate in a legal vacuum. Legal barriers have been set, the era of unlimited, arbitrary tariffs impossible by the President might now be coming to an end," Lange said.

Lange said that the European side "must carefully assess the ruling and its consequences."

He said that he had convened a meeting of the European Parliament's negotiating team on the EU-U.S. trade deal for the coming Monday to evaluate possible consequences for ongoing work, particularly ahead of the committee vote.

The European Parliament's Committee on International Trade is due to vote next Monday and Tuesday on two legislative proposals linked to implementing EU commitments stemming from the EU-U.S. political agreement reached by Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Turnberry, Scotland, on July 27, 2025.

Meanwhile, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Ontario Premier Doug Ford also welcomed the ruling in their respective posts on X on Friday.

LeBlanc said that the U.S. court's decision "reinforces Canada's position that the IEEPA (the International Emergency Economic Powers Act) tariffs imposed by the United States are unjustified."

While acknowledging that Canada maintains a strong trade partnership with the United States, LeBlanc noted that "critical work lies ahead" to support Canadian businesses and workers still affected by Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum and automotive sectors.

Commenting on the ruling, Ford said in his post: “Today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision is another important victory in the fight against President Trump's tariffs, but the battle isn't over yet. We need to watch how the White House reacts."

"We need to keep up the fight against tariffs on auto, steel, aluminum and forestry, which remain in place and continue to hurt our workers. I won't stop fighting until every last tariff against Canada is dropped so we can grow our economies and create jobs on both sides of the border," said the premier.

One day before the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling, the JPMorgan Chase Institute published a report which showed that tariff payments by midsize U.S. firms roughly tripled in 2025.

The report said that U.S. midsize firms' tariff payments began increasing sharply starting last April, the month that Trump unveiled his sweeping "Liberation Day" levies on numerous trading partners, reaching about three times the level seen before April in August 2025.

Tariff payments by these firms remained high through November, before declining slightly in December, according to the report.

Last week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York also published a report on the impacts of Trump's global tariffs. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau through November 2025, the report found that American consumers and firms paid for nearly 90 percent of the tariffs in 2025.

In response to Friday's ruling, Trump said at a press conference later in the day that his administration intends to introduce a new "10-percent global tariff" to replace the duties struck down by the Supreme Court.

US Supreme Court rejecting Trump's global tariffs wins applause at home, abroad

As the diplomatic engagement between the United States and Iran continues despite a faltering ceasefire, a former commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said that Iran is prepared to use military power to break the U.S. maritime blockade should the negotiations collapse or run on too long.

Mohsen Rezaee, who also currently serves as a member of the Iranian Expediency Discernment Council, struck a confident tone about Iran's current trajectory in an exclusive interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN) in Tehran on Wednesday.

He said the country has withstood over two decades of crippling sanctions and continued to move forward.

"We have been under sanctions for more than 20 years. The number of sanctions likely exceeds 2,000, targeting individuals, enterprises, corporations, ships, insurance companies, and even foreign countries that interacted with us. However, we have managed to find solutions to neutralize these sanctions, and we will continue to do so moving forward," he said.

He said Iran aims to ease the sanctions burden through talks with the U.S., although at the same time, he said, Iran is ready to shift to a military response if the path to a peaceful resolution closes.

"Furthermore, we will compel the U.S. to lift these sanctions. We will force the U.S. to end the maritime blockade -- either through negotiations or, should they resist, through direct action and we will attack U.S. warships. Therefore, despite all the pressures, the future of our economy is bright and promising, while the future of the US economy is bleak," he said.

While any new war against Iran would be a dead end, the best way out for the U.S. is to continue talks, according to the senior official.

"We have prepared ourselves so that if the maritime blockade continues beyond a certain timeframe, we will launch an attack and break the blockade. The Americans have no choice but to negotiate. Continuing this war is a journey into a very dark tunnel for the United States. The more America chooses to fight, the deeper it enters a tunnel with no end. Yet for us, the path is perfectly clear. America is moving toward us in the dark, while we are monitoring their every move," he said.

Former IRGC chief says Iran ready to break U.S. naval blockade by force if talks fail