Twelve US states have filed a lawsuit demanding that tariffs imposed by the administration of US President Donald Trump be lifted, the press service of New York Governor Kathy Hochul said.
Governor
Kathy Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James today
announced that New York State and a coalition of 11 other states are
suing the Trump administration for illegally imposing unprecedented tax
hikes on Americans in the form of tariffs issued under the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
"The coalition seeks a court
order halting these IEEPA tariffs, including the worldwide tariffs that
were paused on April 9, and preventing the Trump administration from
enforcing or implementing them," the press service said in a statement
on Wednesday.
The
lawsuit was filed in the US Court of International Trade, the statement
read. In addition to New York, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut,
Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and
Vermont have joined it, the statement added.
