By Andrea Shalal

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The United States can use other measures to recreate the roughly $200 billion in revenues it is collecting under tariffs based on a 1977 law if the Supreme Court strikes down use of that law, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said ‍on Wednesday.

Greer, speaking at an event hosted by the Atlantic Council, said it would make sense for Congress to legislate new rules for U.S. trade in the longer term.

He declined to provide any details on the Trump administration’s backup plan if the highest court upholds a lower court ruling that tariffs based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were illegal, but indicated Washington would turn to other laws to justify new tariffs.

“I’m confident that with other tools ‌we have related

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