{"id":16100,"date":"2026-02-22T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/u-s-supreme-court-tariff-ruling-could-curb-trumps-unlimited-arbitrary-tariffs-senior-ep-official\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:35:27","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-tariff-ruling-could-curb-trumps-unlimited-arbitrary-tariffs-senior-ep-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/u-s-supreme-court-tariff-ruling-could-curb-trumps-unlimited-arbitrary-tariffs-senior-ep-official\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court tariff ruling could curb Trump&#8217;s &#8220;unlimited, arbitrary tariffs&#8221;: senior EP official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"image\"><figcaption><span>The European Parliament holds a plenary session at its headquarters in Strasbourg, France, Nov. 27, 2024. (Xinhua\/Zhao Dingzhe)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span><strong>Writing on X, Lange called the ruling &ldquo;a positive signal for the rule of law,&rdquo; adding that &ldquo;even a U.S. president does not operate in a legal vacuum.&rdquo;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>BRUSSELS, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) &mdash; Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament&rsquo;s (EP) Committee on International Trade, said on Friday that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the use of emergency powers for tariffs could help end an era of &ldquo;unlimited, arbitrary tariffs&rdquo; imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Earlier on Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize a president to impose sweeping tariffs, dealing a setback to Trump&rsquo;s sweeping tariff strategy built on emergency powers.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260221\/e8dc0432ecf648d18a084e246d7e9937\/20260221e8dc0432ecf648d18a084e246d7e9937_CbsbeeE000009_20260221_CBMFN0A002.JPG\"><figcaption><span>Police officers stand guard in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., the United States, on July 1, 2024. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz\/Xinhua)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Writing on X, Lange called the ruling &ldquo;a positive signal for the rule of law,&rdquo; adding that &ldquo;even a U.S. president does not operate in a legal vacuum.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lange said the implications of the ruling would need to be assessed carefully, adding that he had convened a meeting of the European Parliament&rsquo;s negotiating team on the EU-U.S. trade deal for Monday to evaluate possible consequences for ongoing work, particularly ahead of the committee vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260221\/e8dc0432ecf648d18a084e246d7e9937\/20260221e8dc0432ecf648d18a084e246d7e9937_CbsbeeE000009_20260221_CBMFN0A003.JPG\"><figcaption><span>U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the National Thanksgiving Turkey Pardoning Ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, Nov. 25, 2025. (Xinhua\/Hu Yousong)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>The European Parliament&rsquo;s Committee on International Trade is due to vote at its Feb. 23-24 meeting on two legislative proposals linked to implementing EU commitments stemming from the EU-U.S. political agreement reached by Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Turnberry, Scotland, on July 27, 2025.<\/span><span>&#9632;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>U.S. Supreme Court tariff ruling could curb Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;unlimited, arbitrary tariffs&rdquo;: senior EP official<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament holds a plenary session at its headquarters in Strasbourg, France, Nov. 27, 2024. (Xinhua\/Zhao Dingzhe) Writing on X, Lange called the ruling &ldquo;a positive signal for the rule of law,&rdquo; adding that &ldquo;even a U.S. president does not operate in a legal vacuum.&rdquo; BRUSSELS, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) &mdash; Bernd Lange, chair of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/u-s-supreme-court-tariff-ruling-could-curb-trumps-unlimited-arbitrary-tariffs-senior-ep-official\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;U.S. Supreme Court tariff ruling could curb Trump&#8217;s &#8220;unlimited, arbitrary tariffs&#8221;: senior EP official&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}