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Domino effect of US tariff ruling will unfold slowly
Other legal dominoes like the H-1B visas could fall.
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US President Donald Trump (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping after a bilateral meeting in South Korea in October 2025.
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Cory Alpert
US President Donald Trump briefly addressed the Supreme Court justices who attended his annual State of the Union speech, calling their ruling, which ended his signature tariff plan, “very unfortunate”.
In that 6-3 ruling, the court invalidated his ability to levy his alleged “reciprocal tariffs” – the core of his tariff regime. In an instant, hundreds of billions of dollars in trade levies became legally unenforceable.
