The Supreme Court decided on March 27 not to take up an industry challenge to steel import tariffs that then-President Donald Trump launched in 2018 on U.S. national security grounds.
President Joe Biden has left the tariffs, which Trump said were needed to assure robust levels of domestic steel production, largely intact. The Biden administration had urged the court to reject the challenge.
The tariffs were unveiled March 1, 2018. A 25 percent tariff on imported steel from most countries was imposed, along with a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum.
The next day Trump wrote on Twitter that trade wars were “good” and “easy to win.”…