Trade Cases
June 27, 2018
AIIS Challenges Constitutionality of Section 232
Written by Sandy Williams
The American Institute for International Steel and two companies have challenged the constitutionality of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
AIIS, along with Sim-Tex, LP, and Kurt Orban Partners, LLC, have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York City alleging that the statute violates the constitutional prohibition against Congress delegating its legislative powers to the president. Doing so lacks any “intelligible principle” to limit the discretion of the president, charges the group in its suit.
