25 states sued the Trump administration over latest tariffs

WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC, KYMA) - 25 states, including Arizona and California, sued the Trump Administration Monday over its latest tariffs, calling them a pretext for replacing import taxes the Supreme Court struck down in February.

The United States, last month, imposed double digit tariffs on 59 countries and the European Union, charging that they had not done enough to crack down on imports produced by forced labor.

The new tariffs took effect just as the clock ran out on temporary tariffs President Donald Trump had turned to after the Supreme Court defeat.

After losing at the Supreme Court, the administration is once again "trying to illegally raise taxes on families and businesses with a new round of tariffs," said New York Attorney General Letitia James.

President Trump, who argues that high tariffs will revive American manufacturing, last year overturned decades of U.S. policy that favored lower tariffs and ever-freer trade.

Eager to make up the lost revenue, Trump turned to temporary 10% worldwide tariffs, but they expired at midnight July 24.