The first lawsuit has been filed and I'm sure the first of many

China will not roll over and its retaliation of 34% is on about $150b worth of our goods, including soybeans and energy products. China will just buy these particular items from someone else.

The lawsuits are now coming for the administration over tariffs on the basis that there is no National Emergency that is being claimed that would empower the President to implement such tariffs. According to a Reuters story, the "New Civil Liberties Alliance, a conservative legal group, on Thursday filed what it said was the first lawsuit seeking to block Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports, saying the US president overstepped his authority." Trump has used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 as his legal basis.

Andrew Morris a senior litigation counsel member of the NCLA said in a statement, "By invoking emergency power to impose an across-the-board tariff on imports from China that the statute does not authorize, President Trump has misused that power, usurped Congress's right to control tariffs, and upset the Constitution's separation of powers."

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Simplified which is a Florida based retailer of "home management products." And, "The lawsuit says presidents can only impose tariffs with Congress' permission and under complex trade statutes spelling out how and when they can be authorized."

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-administration-sued-over-chinese-import-tariffs-2025-04-03/

We should expect a lot more of this as there is no emergency that would precipitate what is going on. I only went to law school for one year but it seems pretty obvious. It could end up being the courts over the next week that freeze what is going on rather than the result of trade negotiations.