The states — including Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont — are challenging tariffs that President Trump imposed last month on most of the countries in the world in an effort to reverse America’s massive and longstanding trade deficits.

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -Twelve U.S. states asked a federal court on Wednesday to halt President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, arguing that he overstepped his authority by declaring a national emergency to impose across-the-board taxes on imports from nations that sell more to the U.

That was the result of President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariff hikes on China since April 2, which rose as high as 145%, on top of a 25% tariff on certain goods from his first term. Had the shipment arrived a day later,