The president’s trade team is exploring other ways it might be able to impose the taxes on imports, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

President Trump said that Beijing was not honoring the terms of a temporary agreement and warned of further confrontation.

The rulings against the levies in two federal courts – the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. -- centered on Trump's unprecedented invocation of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act as a legal justification for tariffs.

President Donald Trump's administration is considering a stopgap effort to impose tariffs on large parts of the global economy under an existing law that includes language allowing for tariffs of up to 15% for 150 days,