The US President Donald Trump announced to raise the global tariffs from 10% to 15% on Saturday, 21 February 2026 and criticised the US Supreme Court decision. He said that his administration will determine the legally permissible tariffs in the coming months as part of his agenda to strengthen the US economy.
Calling the Supreme Court ruling extraordinarily anti-American, Trump announced the tariff hike on countries which he claims have been ripping off the US for decades.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily 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% 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."
The President further said that the Trump administration will soon announce legally permissible tariffs as part of the ongoing efforts to boost the US economy.
“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 - GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!”
SCOTUS blow to tariffs
The US Supreme Court on Friday struck down Trump's sweeping tariffs in a 6-3 decision. The bench upheld a lower court's ruling that the Republican president's use of this 1977 law exceeded his authority.
Most people agreed that the Constitution explicitly grants Congress the authority to levy taxes, including tariffs. Chief Justice John Roberts noted that "The Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch," as reported by Reuters.
The US Supreme Court held that the US President lacked authority under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose sweeping import duties on goods from nearly all US trading partners.
Following the Supreme Court's order, Trump said on Friday that he had signed off on 10% tariffs on trading partners.
"It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
