Trump signed an order to increase steel and aluminum fees to 50% today

White House spokesman Caroline Levitte announced that US President Donald Trump will sign an official assignment on Tuesday to increase customs duties on steel and aluminum imports to 50% instead of 25%. Last Friday, Trump said the higher graphics would come into effect on June 4, but Levitte did not make the timing of the application of the decision clear. The move comes in a time when the United States is in trade negotiations with a number of its commercial partners about what Trump describes as ‘mutual fees’, before the deadline on July 9. The US president’s imposition of customs duties appears unilaterally with a poor legal basis, especially after a federal court is void under the Economic Emergency Act. However, Trump’s fees on metals were not subject to this decision. Trump announced the decision during a speech he delivered at a United States Stigf factory in Pennsylvania on Friday, where he expressed his support for the company’s sales agreement to the Japanese “Nebon Steel” group, with his promise to remain under the form of US control. “That means no one can steal your industry. When it was 25%, they could have climbed this obstacle somewhat, while they couldn’t overcome it at 50%,” Trump said, saying during his announcement that they had addressed steel workers. He later announced in a social media post that aluminum fees will also rise to the same level. The Trump administration is currently fighting a legal battle over most of the fees imposed under the “International Economic Power Law” (IEPA). What the fees imposed on steel and aluminum are not included in this legal conflict because they have been imposed under another authority.