Powerful, obscure law is basis for Trump ‘order’ telling U.S. companies to stop trading with China

5:55am PDT - August 25th, 2019    power - Google News (Canada)

Trump threatened to make use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in the trade war, raising questions about the wisdom and propriety of making the 1977 act used to target rogue regimes, terrorists and drug traffickers the newest weapon in the cl…