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Trump doubles down on tariffs
The Star
|February 23, 2026
PRESIDENT Donald Trump raised the global duty on imports into the US to 15% at the weekend, doubling down on his promise to maintain his aggressive tariff policy a day after the Supreme Court ruled much of it illegal.
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US president Donald Trump has raised tariffs on US imports to 15%. AFP
(AFP)
Trump said on his Truth Social platform that after a thorough review of last Friday's “extraordinarily anti-American decision” by the court to rein in his tariff programme, the administration was hiking the import levies “to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level.”
Shortly after the court's 6-3 ruling that rejected the president's authority to impose tariffs under a 1977 economic emergency powers act, Trump had initially announced a new 10% global levy by invoking a different legal avenue.
At the same time, the Republican launched an extraordinary personal attack on the conservative justices who had sided with the majority, slamming their “disloyalty” and calling them “fools and lap dogs”.
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