President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear that he plans to impose broad tariffs on imports from some of the United ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is widely expected to again turn to a favorite legal tool to underpin threatened tariffs on ...

THE ORIGINAL intention was for American presidents to be mere legal executors—not emperors able to impose their will ...

Congress usually sets tariffs, but President-elect Donald Trump could declare a national emergency, as he's done in the past.

Donald Trump plans to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, alongside other legal avenues, to implement tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China. These measures are aimed at ...

A U.S. appeals court ruled that the Treasury Department's sanctions on Tornado Cash’s immutable smart contracts were unlawful ...

"As the decision correctly recognizes, the meaning of a statute doesn’t change to fit new contexts; it’s up to Congress to ...

There's also the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), although it hasn't used to restrict trade since President Richard Nixon was in office. The act says: "Any authority granted to ...

“Those are possibilities again,” Alden said. Further, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) passed by Congress in 1977, delegates to the president the ability to impose ...

he cites the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) granting him authorization to do so. The law, which was enacted in 1977, gives presidents sweeping powers. Under the IEEPA ...

such as a long-forgotten 1977 law called the International Emergency Economic Powers. That could be dusted off and would perhaps allow a president to act even more quickly and impose higher duties ...