Donald Trump's tariff policy "hasn't changed", the US president's trade representative has insisted, despite the Supreme Court moving on Friday to strike down a legal justification used by Trump to impose many such tariffs.
"The legal tool to implement it - that might change, but the policy hasn't changed," said US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in an interview with ABC News on Sunday.
Tariffs are taxes on imported goods. The tax is paid to the government by the companies that bring in the foreign products.
The Supreme Court ruled that Trump had overstepped his powers with his use of one specific tool to enact a sweeping global programme of tariffs last April.
The ruling only applied to Trump's invocation of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which accounted for the bulk of the tariffs that he has imposed during his second term in the White House.
