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Press Release:

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Tong Sues Trump Admin­is­tra­tion to Stop Ille­gal Tar­iffs

Preceding Event:

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump issued exec­u­tive orders, impos­ing tar­iffs on oth­er coun­tries. Four are at issue in this case. These are known in the suit as the “Cana­da Tar­iff Order”, “The Mex­i­co Tar­iff Order”, the “Chi­na Tar­iff Order” and “The World­wide Tar­iff Order.” Trump has been invok­ing the Inter­na­tion­al Emer­gency Eco­nom­ic Pow­ers Act to jus­ti­fy his actions.

General Overview:

Accord­ing to the law­suit, “The Pres­i­dent has no author­i­ty to arbi­trar­i­ly impose tar­iffs as he has done here. The text and his­to­ry of the Inter­na­tion­al Emer­gency Eco­nom­ic Pow­ers Act (IEEPA)—the statute the Pres­i­dent has invoked for the most dam­ag­ing of his tariffs—confirm that the Pres­i­dent can­not impose such tar­iffs under that law. And even if it did, it would not allow the world­wide tar­iffs he has imposed, which were not a response to an emer­gency as IEEPA defines it and have no nexus to the cir­cum­stances that pur­port­ed to jus­ti­fy them.”

The law­suit claims that Trump is attempt­ing to cir­cum­vent nor­mal process­es of imple­ment­ing tar­iffs by issu­ing exec­u­tive orders and that his order vio­lates the Com­merce Clause of Arti­cle 1 Sec­tion 8 of the Con­sti­tu­tion.

Date of filing:

April 23, 2025

Case #:

1:25-cv-00077

Case title:

The State of Ore­gon et al v. Unit­ed States Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty

Plaintiffs: 12 states

• THE STATE OF OREGON,
• THE STATE OF ARIZONA,
• THE STATE OF COLORADO,
• THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
• THE STATE OF DELAWARE,
• THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
• THE STATE OF MAINE,
• THE STATE OF MINNESOTA,
• THE STATE OF NEVADA,
• THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO,
• THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
• THE STATE OF VERMONT,

Defendants:

• DONALD J. TRUMP, in his capac­i­ty as Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States;
• DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY;
• KRISTI NOEM, in her offi­cial capac­i­ty as Sec­re­tary of the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty;
• UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION;
• PETER R. FLORES, in his offi­cial capac­i­ty as Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er for U.S. Cus­toms and Bor­der Pro­tec­tion;
• THE UNITED STATES

Court:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Status as of Dec. 1, 2025:

CLOSED — Ter­mi­nat­ed on May 28, 2025
Judg­ment in favor of plain­tiffs

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