The dramatic rebuke to the US president’s trade agenda comes weeks before Trump is set to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a crucial three-day summit in Beijing to discuss high-priority topics such as trade, technology and Taiwan.
Tariffs have been one of Trump’s go-to tools for economic negotiations with other nations. But on Friday, Supreme Court justices ruled that Trump had exceeded his authority in utilizing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, to impose broad tariffs on nearly all of its trade partners, including China.
