President Donald Trump mentioned Friday he has signed a proclamation implementing a brand new international 10% tariff — hours after the Supreme Court struck down most of his levies as unlawful.
Trump confirmed in a social media publish Friday night that he signed the order within the Oval Workplace.
In response to the order, the brand new tariff on international imports will take impact Tuesday.
Earlier Friday, Trump previewed his alternate plan to impose tariffs below a special authorized authority, lambasting the Supreme Court docket’s determination as “deeply disappointing.”
President Donald Trump speaks throughout a press convention within the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, February 20, 2026.
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“Different options will now be used to switch those that the courtroom incorrectly rejected,” Trump advised reporters within the White Home briefing room. “We’ve options, nice options, might be extra money. We’ll soak up extra money and we’ll be rather a lot stronger for it.”
Trump mentioned he would signal the order enacting a ten% international tariff below Part 122 of the Commerce Act of 1974.
However such tariffs can solely final for 150 days with out congressional approval. When requested about that limitation, Trump claimed he might “do just about what we need to do.”
Pressed extra broadly on whether or not he was going to ask Congress (the place Republicans at the moment maintain a majority within the Home and Senate) to take extra motion on tariffs, Trump mentioned he did not consider he wanted to.
The brand new 10% international tariff will apply to nations that already struck commerce offers with the U.S., in accordance with a White Home official.
The official mentioned that the nations coated below the ten% fee embrace the UK, India, Japan and the European Union — although the listing was not exhaustive.
This might decrease tariffs on many offers he has negotiated; for instance, the commerce offers set tariff charges at 15% with Japan and 18% with India.
A reality sheet from the White Home laid out a listing of exemptions from the brand new tariffs, together with on meals like beef, prescription drugs, automobiles and a few electronics.
President Donald Trump speaks throughout a press convention within the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, February 20, 2026.
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Imports from Canada and Mexico that fall below the U.S.-Mexico-Canada commerce settlement struck throughout Trump’s first time period in workplace additionally won’t face the brand new 10% tariff.
Trump additionally signed one other government order extending a suspension of what is referred to as the de minimis exemption, which beforehand allowed low worth items below $800 to be shipped the U.S. duty-free. Trump first suspended the de minimis exemption final yr. The brand new order implements the ten% tariffs on these items, which frequently come from retailers, resembling Shein and Temu.
The Supreme Court docket’s 6-3 ruling marked a significant blow to what has been the cornerstone of Trump’s financial agenda in his second time period and one in every of his longtime political targets. Trump publicly lobbied the courtroom for months to rule in his favor.
The courtroom’s majority deemed that the Worldwide Emergency Financial Powers Act (IEEPA) doesn’t give him the ability to unilaterally impose tariffs. Congress, not the president, has the ability to impose tariffs and taxes, the bulk concluded.
“I am ashamed of sure members of the courtroom, completely ashamed, for not having the braveness to do what’s proper for our nation,” Trump mentioned.
Three conservative justices joined the liberal justices in invalidating the IEEPA tariffs, together with two justices nominated by Trump: Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch. The opinion was delivered by Chief Justice John Roberts.
Additional attacking the courtroom, Trump mentioned “they’re simply being fools and lapdogs for the RINOs and the unconventional left Democrats.” He mentioned that the households of the conservative justices who dominated in opposition to the administration needs to be embarrassed, and known as the liberal justices on the courtroom a “shame to our nation.”
Trump mentioned that due to the ruling, “International nations which have been ripping us off for years are ecstatic. They’re so pleased, they usually’re dancing within the streets, however they will not be dancing for lengthy that, I can guarantee you.”
The president additionally mentioned he’ll begin investigations below Part 301 of the 1974 Commerce Act, although he didn’t specify which nations or sectors they’d goal. These investigations can take weeks or months, and are utilized in response to an antagonistic commerce coverage taken up by one other nation.
“We’re going ahead,” Trump mentioned.
President Donald Trump speaks throughout a press convention within the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, February 20, 2026.
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Trump congratulated Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh for his or her dissents on this case. He particularly praised Kavanaugh, saying his “inventory has gone so up.”
From the White Home briefing room podium, Trump learn aloud a part of Kavanaugh’s dissent through which Kavanaugh mentioned the courtroom’s determination “may not considerably constrain a President’s capacity to order tariffs going ahead.”
Kavanaugh additionally famous in his dissent the silence from the courtroom’s majority on the difficulty of refunds or how that course of would work. As of December, the administration had collected $142 billion by means of the tariffs, in accordance with the Yale Funds Lab.
“It isn’t mentioned. We’ll find yourself being in courtroom for the subsequent 5 years,” Trump mentioned, signaling he wouldn’t voluntarily pay out refunds.
ABC Information’ Elizabeth Schulze and Zunaira Zaki contributed to this report.
