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China Pushes Back Against Trump’s New Trade Measures as Persistent Tariff Volatility Reshapes Asia Supply Chains

China has warned it will take “firm countermeasures” if the United States moves ahead with fresh trade investigations targeting Chinese strategic industries, escalating tensions just days after the US Supreme Court curtailed President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs under...
Donald Trump

Asia Faces Unprecedented Uncertainty Trump’s 15% Tariff Signals New Era of Legal and Policy Volatility

Asia can no longer afford to treat President Donald Trump’s new 15 percent tariff as mere background noise. The decision, announced with little preamble, sent immediate shockwaves through global markets. Gold surged to over five thousand dollars a troy ounce,...
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Southeast Asia Crossroads: US Supreme Court Voids Trump’s Emergency Tariffs and Forces Rethink of Executive Trad

The United States Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Donald Trump’s tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) has sent tremors far beyond Washington. In a 6–3 ruling, the Court curtailed one of the most expansive...
Donald Trump

US Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs, but Trade War Politics Grind 

In a decision that could reshape the boundaries of presidential power over trade, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6–3 that former President Donald Trump exceeded his constitutional authority when he used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...
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Trump Slaps Worldwide 15% Tariffs After Supreme Court Setback, Deepening Legal and Economic Uncertainty

US President Donald Trump has announced a sweeping increase in baseline tariffs on imports from all countries to 15%, escalating global trade tensions just hours after a landmark Supreme Court ruling struck down his earlier use of emergency powers to...
US–China

US–China Rivalry: How Trump’s Global Tariff Reset Forces Asia to Choose Between Policy Whiplash and Structural Dependence

For an Asian exporter, port operator or supply-chain manager, “trade geopolitics” is no longer an abstract debate reserved for think tanks and diplomats. It is a volatility premium paid daily in freight rates, contract clauses, inventory buffers and delayed investment...
US Supreme Court

US Supreme Court Delivers Major Blow to Trump’s Trade Agenda, Rules President Lacked Authority to Impose Sweeping Global Tariffs Under Emergency Law

In a landmark rebuke to executive power, the US Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump exceeded his legal authority when he invoked a 1977 emergency law to impose sweeping global tariffs, a move that ignited a far-reaching...
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Trump Slams Supreme Court Tariff Ruling “Disgraceful,” Vows to Reimpose 10% Global Levy Under New Trade Authority

President Donald Trump said Friday he would keep sweeping tariffs in place by invoking alternative legal authorities, hours after the US Supreme Court ruled that he exceeded his powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in imposing the...