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Feb 9 (Reuters) - Chinese automaker BYD has filed a suit against the U.S. authorities challenging President Donald Trump's bid to usage sweeping authorization to enforce tariffs, and requesting a refund for all levies it paid since past April, tribunal documents show.
The lawsuit, the archetypal by a Chinese carmaker implicit U.S. tariffs, follows akin complaints by thousands of planetary companies with U.S. operations challenging Trump's usage of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to enforce borderline taxes.
In the suit filed astatine the U.S. Court of International Trade connected January 26, 4 of BYD's U.S. subsidiaries reason that the instrumentality does not authorize borderline taxes arsenic "the substance of IEEPA does not employment the connection "tariff" oregon immoderate word of equivalent meaning".
In a separate, high-stakes case, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to regularisation connected the legality of the tariffs, but Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said past week the tribunal was taking its clip fixed the "enormous" stakes involved.
BYD said successful the suit that it had to record an autarkic ailment to support its quality to beryllium refunded for the tariffs it has already paid.
While the Chinese carmaker does not merchantability rider cars successful the U.S., its business successful the state includes buses and commercial vehicles, batteries, vigor retention systems and solar panels.
Its portion BYD North America employs 750 workers successful its motortruck works successful Lancaster, California, according to its website.
Trump repeatedly said Chinese cars threaten the aboriginal of the U.S. car industry, but has said a fewer times that helium would invited a Chinese automaker that wants to physique cars connected U.S. soil.
The lawsuit is No. 26-00847 astatine the U.S. Court of International Trade successful New York.
(Reporting by Alessandro Parodi in Gdansk, editing by Chizu Nomiyama )
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