A 10% global tariff issued by the United States took effect on Tuesday, despite the Trump administration previously promising to enact a 15% rate.
A White House official told the Washington Examiner that the Trump administration is working on increasing the rate to 15%, as President Donald Trump outlined Saturday, but said there is “no timeline for that yet.”
Customs and Border Protection published a notice Monday evening alerting that the 10% rate would take effect Tuesday. The development came after Trump signed an executive order imposing that rate on Friday. Hours later, Trump announced plans to hike the tariff to 15%. However, he has not yet signed an official directive to increase the rate.
A White House spokesperson told Reuters that the president has had “no change of heart” on his desire for a 15% tariff rate.
Trump imposed the latest round of global tariffs after the Supreme Court tossed out his previous “Liberation Day” tariffs in a landmark 6-3 ruling last week. The ruling split the conservative majority down the middle and determined that the legal mechanism Trump used to implement those tariffs, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, did not withstand scrutiny.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued a dissenting opinion, arguing that the IEEPA’s broad grant of power to the executive branch to regulate imports includes the power to impose tariffs. He also contended in his dissent that there are “numerous other federal statutes [that] authorize the President to impose tariffs and might justify most (if not all) of the tariffs at issue in this case.”
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“The sole legal question here is whether, under IEEPA, tariffs are a means to ‘regulate … importation,’” he wrote. “Statutory text, history, and precedent demonstrate that the answer is clearly yes: Like quotas and embargoes, tariffs are a traditional and common tool to regulate importation.”
Trump immediately issued the new 10% tariffs through a different provision, known as Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act, which allows the president to impose the charge for 150 days without congressional approval.
