Trump gets tariff reprieve from court; says Beijing ‘violated’ trade talks pact

A federal appeals court temporarily reinstated the most sweeping of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Thursday, a day after a US trade court ruled that Trump had exceeded his authority in imposing the duties and ordered an immediate block on them.

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington said it was pausing the lower court’s ruling to consider the government’s appeal, and ordered the plaintiffs in the cases to respond by June 5 and the administration by June 9.

Wednesday’s surprise ruling by the US Court of International Trade had threatened to kill or at least delay the imposition of Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariffs on imports from most US trading partners and additional tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China.

Trump on Friday said China had violated an agreement with the US to mutually roll back tariffs and trade restrictions for critical minerals and issued a new veiled threat to get tougher with Beijing.

“China, perhaps not surprisingly to some, has totally violated its agreement with us. So much for being Mr Nice Guy!,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

Trump said that he made a “fast deal” in mid-May with Chinese officials for both countries to back away from triple-digit tariffs for 90 days. Trump’s message did not specify how China had violated the agreement made in Geneva, Switzerland and what action he would take against Beijing.

The US trade secretary Scott Bessent said that trade talks between the US and China are “a bit stalled” and may need the direct involvement of Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping. US stock markets turned negative after the news.

‘Prez may revoke parole status for migrants’

The US Supreme Court on Friday let President Donald Trump’s administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the States, bolstering the Republican president’s drive to step up deportations. The court put on hold Boston-based Judge Indira Talwani order halting the administration’s move to end the immigration “parole”.