Trump's tariff plan is temporarily reinstated while a court considers a White House appeal - one day after a federal court blocked the US's trade levies
White House advisor Peter Navarro says the Trump administration is ready to take its appeal to the Supreme Court, adding: "even if we lose, we will do it another way"
This comes a day after three judges ruled Trump overstepped his authority in imposing global tariffs, and gave the White House 10 days to halt the import taxes
In response, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said "we will win this battle in court" and the administration is working to "tackle rogue judges"
The federal appeals court's decision has given the Trump administration a temporary victory - although it may be short-lived, writes our reporter in Washington
We're due to shortly hear from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as she holds a news briefing.
This is a regularly scheduled briefing, so we expect her to deliver the White House's official response to a range of questions, not just on the latest ruling on the Trump administration's sweeping tariffs
Stay with us as we bring you the latest from Washington DC.
The Trump administration is trying to get higher courts to reverse yesterday's decision.
It is already looking at a potential challenge at the US Supreme Court where conservatives have 6-3 majority on the bench.
Yesterday's decision restrains Trump's efforts to renegotiate trade deals with countries, says the BBC's Senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher.
"It is going to make it difficult for Donald Trump to go to foreign countries, to the EU and say: 'This is the grounds for the threats we are going to use if you don't accede to our demands', when it's not clear they are going to be able to follow through on those threats," he said.
Until the legal questions about whether Congress or the president has the authority to impose tariffs, it may be difficult for the administration to make any substantive changes to US trading relationships.
The White House says the Court of International Trade's ruling on Trump's tariffs is "blatantly wrong".
"We are confident this decision will be overturned on appeal," it says on X.
"Unelected judges shouldn’t stand in the way of the Executive Branch’s lawful use of powers to address national security and foreign policy," it adds in a subsequent post.
Natalie Sherman
New York business reporter
The Trump administration says it will go to the Supreme Court on Friday, unless an appeals court grants its request to block the tariffs ruling.
In a new filing at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the administration asks the court to immediately halt the order barring its Liberation Day and fentanyl tariffs.
It calls the order by the trade court a “legally indefensible” action that would block policies central to its economic and foreign policy agendas and threatens to unwind months of diplomatic negotiations.
Natalie Sherman
New York business reporter
US shares had bounced after last night’s ruling in the trade court.
However the initial jubilation by investors seems to be wearing off, as the White House signals it is preparing for a legal battle.
At midday, the Dow Jones is down about 0.6%, the S&P 500 has dipped about 0.1%, while the Nasdaq is trading roughly flat.
Image source, Getty ImagesFollowing the court overturning many of Donald Trump's tariff plans, here's a summary of what we know the judgement will impact so far:
What is affected?
The court ruled that Trump doesn't have the power to impose the sweeping tariffs under emergency law, meaning his plans to impose a baseline 10% tariff on all nations - as well as higher levies on certain countries - have been blocked.
China and Mexico where among those facing a higher 25% rate on imports, while Canada faced an additional 10% on energy supplies to the US.
A 30% rate on Chinese imports, which includes 20% aimed at putting pressure on Beijing to do more to curb the illegal trade in the powerful opioid drug fentanyl, has also been blocked.
Which tariffs remain?
The court was not asked to address tariffs imposed on some specific goods like cars, steel and aluminium, which fall under a different law.
This means all steel and aluminium entering the US - including products made from these metals - faces a 25% tariff, while foreign made cars, engines and other vehicle parts also still subject to a 25% tariff
Jonathan Josephs
BBC business reporter
The European Union, China and many other countries have been scrambling to get some kind of trade deal in place before President Trump’s 8 July deadline.
The question now is whether they need to continue at quite such a frantic pace or even at all.
Whatever the courts ultimately decide on the legality of these particular tariffs, President Trump has put a lot of energy into his trade agenda.
His complaints about other countries can be boiled down into two areas:
This case is testing the president’s powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.
Given how high a priority trade policy has been in his second term its highly likely President Trump will explore other routes to get the changes he wants on global trade.
India’s chief trade negotiator with the US has today said talks “are progressing well” and so it seems they and other countries are likely to need to continue trying to find a way to settle their differences with the US.
Steve in Cambridge asks: What proportion of people outside of America are boycotting US goods as a result of Trump's tariffs?
"The biggest impact as far as we can tell has been in Canada," BBC Verify's Ben Chu says.
Pointing to Canada by example, Chu says: "There’s been lots of talk and lots of evidence of boycotts of American products."
"Given those countries are so economically interlinked, there’s a lot of targets there."
He adds that Tesla has seen "sales drop in the UK and Europe" and that has been attributed to the fact that the electric car company's CEO, Elon Musk, is "very, very close to Donald Trump and the Trump administration".
However, Chu adds that there's "nothing in the data yet which suggests this is a very large macroeconomic effect, but if this continues, then you may well see it".
Ilya Somin, the co-counsel who brought the lawsuit against the tariffs along with the Liberty Justice Centre, spoke to the BBC World Service's World Business Report earlier today.
“We're very happy at the ruling," he said.
Somin, who is also professor of law at George Mason University and the Kenneth B Simon chair in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, said the court "recognised that the president made a massive and illegal power grab".
"We hope also that the ruling will be sustained on appeal," he added.
Turning again now to another of your questions, the next one being from Kevin. He asks why it's taken so long for Trump's tariffs to be challenged since he announced them on 2 April.
The BBC's North America business correspondent Erin Delmore says it "depends on how you look at it", explaining that "these cases were brought weeks ago".
"The proceedings have been going on for a while in the courts themselves, so these cases were brought in April and now at the end of May we’re seeing this decision handed down."
Image source, AFP via Getty ImagesCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he welcomes yesterday's legal ruling that blocked US President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs.
The ruling "is consistent with Canada's long-standing position, that the US tariffs were unlawful as well as unjustified," he says in an address to Canada's House of Commons on Thursday morning.
But Carney adds that the trade relationship with the US is still "profoundly and adversely threatened" by other tariffs Trump has imposed against Canada's steel, aluminium and auto sectors.
Because of this, Carney says Canada is still focused on establishing a new economic and security relationship with the US, as well as looking for other "reliable trading partners and allies" around the world.
We're getting questions now from you now that our experts answering on the BBC News Channel.
First up is Stuart in Dorset, who wants to know what the federal court's ruling could mean for America's deal with the UK.
As a reminder, both nations agreed a deal to reduce tariffs on some goods traded between the countries earlier this month.
BBC Verify's Ben Chu says the deal's document spells out that the document alone isn't a "legally binding agreement", which means there's nothing yet that can’t be reversed in law in terms of that agreement.
He adds that while the court's ruling could potentially remove the 10% tariff on the UK's imports to the US, it wouldn't affect the 25% tariff on car, steel, and aluminium imports into America.
Don't forget that you can tune in and watch along - there's a watch live button at the top of this page.
Vishala Sri-Pathma
Business reporter
Dmitry Grozoubinski is the author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade and a former trade negotiator for Australia.
He tells the BBC World Service’s World Business Report that the federal court ruling appears to make the deal more attractive for the UK, in that it removes the “biggest pain point”, which was the 10% base line tariffs.
“The biggest criticism of the UK deal was that it left the US 10% 'Liberation Day' tariffs in place. It didn't challenge them and it kind of gave away the UK's ability to retaliate against them," he says.
"Now those 10% tariffs have been ruled illegal and the US will presumably have to get rid of them. So in some ways the UK-US deal has become an even better one for Britain than it was."
The UK has said it wants to accelerate negotiations to conclude the deal, particularly as no legal text exists as of yet.
The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds is expected to meet US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick at a meeting of the OECD in Paris next Tuesday.
In case you don't want to read the whole 49-page document, external from the Court of International Trade, we asked Deborah Elms, head of trade policy at the Hinrich Foundation, some questions about the ruling.
Here's what she had to say.
Does the ruling block Trump’s 10% blanket tariffs?
Yes. All tariffs imposed on 2 April, plus the fentanyl tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico.
Will the tariffs halt come into effect immediately?
Unclear. The ruling says the White House has 10 days but doesn’t say how. With the White House saying it'll appeal, it’s not known if this freezes policy until the court processes finish or if tariffs are still collected.
Will there be refunds on the tariffs they've already paid?
Whatever happens, I do not think any refunds will be allowed until the legal basis is sorted out.
Amazon's share price is up around 1% after opening higher as the US stock market began trading today.
It comes after the news that Trump's global tariffs could be called into question.
In April, Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos after reports that the online retail giant planned to detail the cost of trade tariffs to its customers. A US press secretary called the move "a hostile and political act by Amazon".
Amazon, which trades globally and would likely see costs rise as tariffs bite, had said it had looked into itemising the impact for shoppers using Amazon Haul, a low-cost site it launched in the US in 2024.
However, it said it had decided not to move forward with the idea.
Faisal Islam
Economics editor
"Watch the courts" was the whispered message a well-connected diplomat told me in Washington DC last month, amid the previous episode of US tariff chaos.
The International Trade Court ruling raises the real question about whether the wider so-called reciprocal tariffs due in July will ever come in to effect, whether the 10% universal tariff can stick, whether nations will bother to negotiate, whether Congress will come to the president's rescue, and of course, the eventual reaction of the Supreme Court.
Of course, the Trump administration rather undermined their own logic by also levying "reciprocal" tariffs on countries with which it ran a trade surplus, such as the UK.
The likes of Japan and the European Union were already holding back, after seeing the White House retreat in the face of tariff-related turbulence in US government borrowing rates.
US retailers were warning not just of tariff-related inflation, but of potential empty shelves. The row back on the China tariffs, purportedly fentanyl-trafficking enemy, means that actual G7 allies expect better treatment from the US.
But for now, expect other negotiators around the world to put their feet up and wait, while the White House tries to disprove the illegality of the very basis of its global trade conflict.
Image source, EPAWhite House economic adviser Kevin Hassett has said that three trade deals were nearly done and he expects more - despite the court ruling blocking most of President Donald Trump's tariffs.
"There are many, many deals coming. And there were three that basically look like they're done," Hassett told Fox Business a little earlier today, Reuters reports.
In the interview, Hassett dismissed the trade court ruling and said he was confident the administration would win an appeal.
The administration's view was that numerous countries would open up their markets to American products in the next month or two, he added.
"If there are little hiccups here or there because of decisions that activist judges make, then it shouldn't just concern you at all, and it's certainly not going to affect the negotiations."
Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House
Image source, Bernd Debusmann Jr/BBCIt's going to be a busy day here at the White House, even if we may not hear from President Trump directly.
This week has been relatively calm by the standards of the Trump White House, and today is no different.
According to a schedule released by the White House last night, the President's will start his day by receiving his daily intelligence brief at 11:00 local time (1600 BST) before having lunch with Vice President JD Vance behind closed doors.
Later in the afternoon, he'll also participate in a swearing-in ceremony for the new Chief of the Protocol of the United States, Monica Crowley.
At the moment, this will take place behind closed-doors, but we often see the White House press pool invited in at the last minute.
All eyes will be on Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's briefing at 13:00 EDT (18:00 BST), in which she will likely express the administration's anger at the judge's ruling on tariffs, and face question about Elon Musk's departure from the White House.
Stay with us for more updates.
Vishala Sri-Pathma
Business reporter
US stocks have risen at the opening bell in New York.
Tech stock led the gains, with Nvidia jumping more than 5% following its quarterly report, which topped estimates but warned of a second quarter revenue impact due to US restrictions on exports to China.
It is not clear whether the rally will last today as investors weigh whether Trump will still pursue his tariff policy.
Asian markets overnight had a strong response to the news, with Europe also opening in positive territory.
The US dollar, which initially rallied strongly on news of the court ruling, has now fallen against a basket of other major currencies by 0.45%.
Analysts say the uncertainty is weighing on investors' minds and market reaction isn’t as strong as some may have predicted when news of the court ruling first broke.
Image source, ReutersVishala Sri-Pathma
BBC News
US markets have opened in positive territory with the Nasdaq up 1.1% and the Dow Jones rising 0.2%.
The tech heavy S&P 500 gained about 0.9% with investors digesting news of chipmaker, Nvidia topping estimates with their first quarter results
Asian markets jumped on the news overnight, followed by a muted response in London, with the FTSE 100 remaining flat.
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