Two new lawsuits filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade target Trump’s latest tariffs, with Learning Resources joining one case and Burlap and Barrel and Collective Horology bringing another.
The suits argue the administration failed to justify country-by-country tariffs under Section 301 or show how the levies would curb forced-labor-linked imports, as the statute requires.
The new duties hit 60 trading partners and cover 99% of U.S. imports, replacing temporary 10% worldwide tariffs that expired just after broader Trump tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court in February.
Trade lawyers say these challenges may be harder to win because Section 301 tariffs survived court fights in Trump’s first term, and any relief could be slow even if countries change policy.