By Dietrich Knauth

(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday will review President Donald Trump’s power to impose tariffs, after a lower court said he exceeded his authority with sweeping levies on imported goods.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., will consider the legality of “reciprocal” tariffs that Trump imposed on a broad range of U.S. trading partners in April, as well as tariffs imposed in February against China, Canada and Mexico.

A panel of all of the court’s active judges, eight appointed by Democratic presidents and three appointed by former Republican presidents, will hear arguments scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET in two cases brought by five small U.S. businesses and 12 Democratic-led U.S. states.

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