Trump boosts new tariff rate to 15% a day after announcing 10%

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington on Friday, following the Supreme Court's ruling that he had exceeded his authority when he imposed

Wires
February 22, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump said he will increase the global 10% tariff he announced one day earlier to 15%, stirring up more economic turbulence as he lashed out at the Supreme Court over its ruling that his preferred mechanism for applying tariffs was illegal.

"I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been ‘ripping’ the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level,” Trump said in a social-media post Saturday.

Trump is rushing to preserve his trade agenda following the court’s ruling against his use of an emergency-powers law to impose his so-called reciprocal tariffs around the world and to use levies as a cudgel to bend foreign governments to his will. Enraged by the decision, Trump initially imposed a 10% global tariff on foreign goods on Friday, hours after the high court ruling, as he seeks to maintain the duties he insists are key to his economic and national security power.