Car manufacturers have acknowledged that there would have been no benefit for them from the short-lived good news about tariffs on May 28.

A federal court blocked most of the tariffs that the US put in place in April on almost all imports from almost all trading partners.
US president, Donald Trump, had said he wanted to use executive power under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to make importers pay more to bring overseas-made goods into the US. But the Court of International Trade found that the president lacked the authority to impose the tariffs.

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