China welcomed the court's ruling. China's Ministry of Commerce called on the U.S. to remove the tariffs altogether, citing that they had negatively harmed global trade and U.S. c

China celebrated the U.S. Court of International Trade's ruling against President Trump's tariffs, using the moment to call for Washington to permanently shelve the levies. "China has consistently maintained that trade wars have no winners and that protectionism offers no way out,

The trade court noted that Trump retains more limited power to impose tariffs to address trade deficits under another statute, the Trade Act of 1974. But that law restricts tariffs to 15% and only for 150 days with countries with which the United States runs big trade deficits.