COMMENT | We may be fully aware that many world-renowned economists have been broadly critical following US President Donald Trump’s recent tariff announcement, warning the taxes could harm both the US and global economies.

Worse - the economists lament - it could potentially trigger a global recession and cost even American families.

Now the legal fraternity in the US has equally entered the fray in totally rejecting Trump’s mind-boggling tariffs.

Many lawyers in the US have argued his justification for the imposition of tariffs - at least on Canada, China, and Mexico under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) - purportedly based on an “extraordinary threat” from illegal immigration and drug trafficking may be legally flawed.

The lawyers also argued that IEEPA does not explicitly grant tariff authority at all.

Indeed, the words “duty” or “tariff”...