President Donald Trump of the United States of America has announced that he is imposing 15 percent global tariffs. This announcement comes barely a day after he announced that he would impose 10 percent global tariffs in protest to a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States that declared his controversial tariffs illegal.
On Friday, President Trump had stated that he would replace the tariffs that had been scrapped off by the Supreme Court with 10 percent tariff on all goods entering the United States.
On Saturday, he reviewed this to 15 percent and stated that the new tariffs will come into effect on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.
These new tariffs will only be able to stay in place for a period of five months within which his administration will be required to seek approval from the US Congress.
“Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinary anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday, after MANY months of contemplation, by the United States Supreme Court, please let this statement serve to represent that I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10 percent Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been ‘ripping’ the U.S off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level. During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs, which will continue our extraordinarily successful process of Making America Great Again,” he said in a statement that he posted on his Truth Social media platform.
On Friday, the US Supreme Court had ruled in a 6 – 3 decision that President Trump had overstepped his executive powers when he slapped the world with global tariffs in 2025 using the 1977 law that is known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
The six justices who struck down his tariffs included Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson who were appointed by Democratic presidents. Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Amy Coney, and Chief Justice John Roberts who were appointed by Republican presidents.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Samuel Alito and African American Justice Clarence Thomas voted in favour of Trump’s tariffs.
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