2025-05-29
26 分钟Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm David Harper and today there is one story leading above all others.
In other words, they charge us, we charge them,
we charge them less, so how can anybody be upset?
Well,
they were upset and some people are now upset enough to take up a legal case against the president over his imposition of tariffs.
That case came to a head on Wednesday night in the United States when a federal court ruled these tariffs to be unlawful.
Put simply,
three judges said that the president had overstepped his authority in using emergency powers to bring in the charges.
So what does that mean for the business owners around the world who've been left wondering what the level of taxes on their goods will be?
Well, the president has bought in the tariffs, paused them,
increased them and reduced them in the last few months.
Our New York business editor is John Mervyn, who joins us live now.
John, let's look at exactly what has happened here.
Interestingly, it isn't one big corporation or organisation that's brought the action.
It's some states and a group of small companies.
That's right, David.
Twelve states led by Oregon and five small companies whose case was organised or led by a non-partisan legal organisation called the Liberty Justice Centre brought two different cases to the Court of International Trade in New York.
They filed their lawsuits earlier this year, shortly after...
President Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs,