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For months President Donald Trump has been slapping higher tariffs on practically every country’s exports to the United States, citing emergency economic powers. Now, just as he’s about to enact a new round of tariffs, a federal appeals court could render them void.

Oral arguments began Thursday for an appeal in a case alleging Trump overstepped his legal authority to impose many of his sweeping tariffs. Five small business owners and 12 Democratic-led states are arguing that Trump can’t use a law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to enact those import duties.

The US Court of International Trade sided with those states and businesses in May bu

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