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US family cheese importer sues Trump over 50% Canadian tariffs it says will cost $40 million a year

US family cheese importer sues Trump over 50% Canadian tariffs it says will cost $40 million a year

New Jersey-based Gellert Global Group says it paid at least $520,538 in duties on 22 shipments of Canadian brie, camembert and goat's cheese in under a month. Its lawyers at the Liberty Justice Center, who beat Trump's 'liberation day' levies at the Supreme Court, accuse him of unlawfully reviving a dormant 1930 law. They want the tariffs blocked and refunds paid with interest. The White House vows to fight.

Sara Albrecht of Liberty Justice Center: no president should pull 'a dormant statute off the shelf'.

The suit claims goods were taxed after just seven days, not the required 30.

One supplier turns upstate New York milk into Canadian brie, then ships it back.

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