Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump · ¶249

When Congress has delegated to the President the power to impose duties on imports, this Court has upheld those delegations. In Clark, 143 U. S. 649, the Court upheld Congress's delegation to the President of the power to impose duties on nations whose importation policies “he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable.” Id., at 680. It explained that Congress had “frequently, from the organization of the government to the present time,” conferred powers over “trade and commerce” to “the President.” Id., at 683. In J. W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States, 276 U. S. 394 (1928), the Court upheld a delegation to the President to impose duties as necessary up to statutorily limited rates to make them reciprocal. Id., at 401, 409. And, in Federal Energy Administration v. Algonquin SNG, Inc., 426 U. S. 548 (1976), the Court upheld a delegation of the power to impose a universal…

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