A federal court ruled May 28 that President Donald J. Trump had overstepped his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs of 10 percent on nearly every nation in the world, potentially raising the price of every imported bottle of wine in American stores and restaurants. A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of International Trade, a federal court in Manhattan, halted Trump’s global tariffs that he imposed by citing emergency economic powers. But the following afternoon, a federal appeals court granted the Trump Administration’s request to temporarily pause the lower court’s ruling, keeping the tariffs in place while the White House appeals the decision. What's next?
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