A trio of judges at the Manhattan-based trade court ruled that Trump’s use of emergency law to impose the tariffs was not legal. The ruling stated the power to regulate trade and commerce lay with Congress and that simply being President did not grant him power to supersede in the name of national security, which Trump had claimed.

A federal appeals court has paused Wednesday night’s ruling from the Court of International Trade that blocked President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The vast majority of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the US trade court, dealing a major blow to a pillar of his economic agenda.