Washington DC, Jan. 20 -- As US President Donald Trump tries to arm-twist the world into succumbing to his whims, questions have arisen about the legality of his tariffs.

What if the tariffs are deemed illegal by the US Supreme Court, which is currently reviewing his use of an emergency law that is the basis of most of his tariffs? Jamieson Greer, the United States Trade Representative, told The New York Times that in case the tariffs are struck down, Trump would replace them with other tariffs.

Greer told The New York Times on January 15, in an interview published on Monday (local time), that if the court doesn't rule in their favour, the administration would "start the next day" to reestablish tariffs "to respond to the problems the p...