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New Jersey cheese importer sues Trump administration, claiming 50% Canadian tariffs rely on a rarely used 1930s law

Mark Carney, whom analysts credit with winning over Alberta by promising a pipeline, secured a resounding 75–25 victory against a binding secession vote.
Mark Carney, whom analysts credit with winning over Alberta by promising a pipeline, secured a resounding 75–25 victory against a binding secession vote.

Gellert Global Group puts the annual cost of the levies at $40 million and reports paying $520,538 in duties across 22 shipments in under a month. The Liberty Justice Center, which previously defeated earlier Trump tariffs at the Supreme Court, filed the case at the US Court of International Trade. It is seeking an injunction to stop the duties, which the White House has pledged to defend vigorously.

Liberty Justice Center chair Sara Albrecht criticised the use of a 'dormant statute' for tariffs.

The complaint says duties began seven days after goods were listed, not the required 30.

One Gellert supplier turns upstate New York milk into brie in Canada, then ships it back.

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