Media Coverage
Media Coverage
Press Contacts: Erik Cummins, Matt Hyams, Taina Rosa, Olivia Thomas
01.09.25
President Donald Trump has been threatening to place new tariffs on imports from Denmark unless the country gives up control of Greenland, which he deems to be essential to U.S. national and economic security.
“The incoming President could potentially rely on the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which gives him broad authority to declare a national emergency to deal with unusual and extraordinary threats to “national security, foreign policy or economy of the United States,” partner Benjamin Cote told MarketWatch.
“The President would stand to have wide discretion to determine what a national emergency is and potentially (immediately) to impose tariffs, although we would still anticipate legal challenges if IEEPA were used against a U.S. ally like Denmark,” he added.
The BBC picked up Cote’s comments in its own article that explored the ways Trump’s plans for Greenland could go.
Click here to read the MarketWatch article (paywalled) and here to read the full BBC article.