ATTORNEY GENERAL BONTA CONTINUES OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S UNLAWFUL TARIFF REGIME, URGES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE TO DECLARE TRUMP'S THIRD ATTEMPT ILLEGAL

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 14 -- The California Attorney General issued the following press release:

OAKLAND - California Attorney General Bonta, as part of a coalition of 25 states, filed an amicus brief (https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/states-section-301-amicus-brief-filed.pdf)in the Court of International Trade in Learning Resources v. Trump, a case challenging President Trump's latest unlawful attempt to tax the states and American consumers through illegal tariffs. In the brief, Attorney General Bonta argues the latest round of tariffs levied under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 are pretextual and are not targeted to address the purported harms of forced labor, as that statute requires, but instead are desi...