{"id":42794,"date":"2026-02-22T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=42794"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:15:14","slug":"trump-says-he-will-increase-his-new-global-tariffs-to-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-says-he-will-increase-his-new-global-tariffs-to-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he will increase his new global tariffs to 15%"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC:<\/strong> US President Donald Trump has said that he will impose global tariffs of 15%, as he continued to rail against a Supreme Court ruling that struck down his previous import taxes.<\/p>\n

Trump said on Friday that he would replace the tariffs scrapped by the court with a 10% levy on all goods coming into the US.<\/p>\n

But on Saturday, he announced on Truth Social that this would be increased to the maximum allowed under a never-used trade law.<\/p>\n

That law allows these new tariffs to stay in place for around five months before the administration must seek congressional approval.<\/p>\n

The 10% tariffs were set to come into force on Tuesday, 24 February. It’s unclear if the increased 15% would also be imposed starting then. The BBC has contacted the White House.<\/p>\n

The new 15% tax rate – a temporary solution under Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act – raises questions for countries such as the UK and Australia, which had agreed a 10% tariff deal with the US.<\/p>\n

Trump said his administration had reached the decision to raise the levy following a review of the Supreme Court’s “ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday”.<\/p>\n

In a 6-3 decision, justices on the highest US court found that the president had overstepped his powers when he introduced sweeping global tariffs last year using a 1977 law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).<\/p>\n

The US has already collected at least $130bn in tariffs using IEEPA, according to the most recent government data.<\/p>\n

Immediately following the ruling, Trump said that he was “ashamed of certain members of the court” and called the justices who rejected his trade policy “fools”.<\/p>\n

The ruling to strike down the tariffs was decided by the court’s three liberal justices, Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative nominated by George W Bush and two justices nominated by Trump: Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch.<\/p>\n

Three conservative justices, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito, dissented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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