The New York Times reports that many important US trading partners are facing higher duties after President Trump, reacting to a Supreme Court setback, set the rate on a new set of global tariffs at 15%

USSC Director of Research Jared Mondschein was quoted in the article on this development, saying that strong economic ties between Australia and the United States are important for national security and that "Rewriting the trade rules doesn’t help the US-Australia alliance.”