Susan Shelley: Supreme Court’s decision on tariffs may not matter at all

In the final analysis, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on tariffs may not matter at all.

“An unfortunate ruling,” President Donald Trump said in his televised State of the Union address, “But the good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made.”

For nearly a year, Trump used tariffs, the threat of tariffs and relief from tariffs as leverage in international relations of all kinds. The U.S. Treasury collected hundreds of billions of dollars as a result.