Trade experts say the president is unlikely to abandon levies as the principal tool in his quest to rewrite the rules of global commerce.

The ruling centered on Trump's unprecedented invocation of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act as a legal justification for tariffs. The 1977 law allows the president

The trade court noted that Trump retains more limited power to impose tariffs to address trade deficits under another statute, the Trade Act of 1974. But that law restricts tariffs to 15% and only for 150 days with countries with which the United States runs big trade deficits.