NEW YORK - Trump's tariffs are facing legal challenges once more.

Small businesses have launched two lawsuits contesting the extensive tariffs declared on Thursday, which apply double-digit duties across 60 trading partners.

Enacted via Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 due to alleged shortcomings in curbing forced-labor imports, these measures affect nearly all U.S. imports. Observers suggest the primary intent is to reinstate worldwide tariffs from the previous year, which the Supreme Court invalidated in February, following the lapse of interim 10 percent global tariffs that faced their own court tests.

Learning Resources, an educational toy maker that participated in the victorious Supreme Court tariff case, joined other small enterprises in filing suit Friday at the Court of International Trade.

Burlap and Barrel, a spice importer from New York, and Collective Horology, a watch seller from Ventura, California, brought the other action through the Liberty Justice Center, a libertarian group.

The suits contend that authorities did not sufficiently demonstrate issues with each individual economy or detail how the tariffs would halt the cited practices, as mandated under Section 301.

“Forced labor is morally indefensible, but an important objective does not give the government permission to ignore the law,” said Sara Albrecht, chairman and CEO of the Liberty Justice Center. “The administration allowed one global tariff to expire and immediately replaced it with another under a different statute. Changing the statute doesn’t change the law.”

The White House offered no immediate comment.

Analysts indicate that prevailing against this tariff round could prove more difficult than earlier attempts. Trump applied Section 301 for substantial China tariffs during his initial term, which withstood judicial review.

Unlike the Section 122 duties that ended Friday, “these tariffs will be with us for the long haul,” noted attorney Patrick Childress, a partner at Holland and Knight and ex-U.S. trade official.

He added that even if nations adopt the exact measures sought by the U.S., they must still verify enforcement to Washington's standards for tariff removal. “This suggests that no short-term path for country-wide relief from the new Section 301 tariffs will be available.”