Tag: Duty Refund


  • Tariff Refunds

    Trade court certifies a class covering importers that never sued, widening a repayment program that has already pushed more than $126 billion out of the Treasury NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2026. A federal trade judge has opened the government’s tariff refund machinery to tens of thousands of importers who never filed a lawsuit, a ruling…

  • Refund Gridlock

    CBP opens the third phase of its tariff refund system on Oct. 6, but only for importers who sued. Seven months after the Supreme Court voided the IEEPA tariffs, roughly 50 billion dollars is still unreturned and the court has not said whether everyone else gets in WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2026 On Sept. 15, a…

  • Refund Phase 3

    Customs and Border Protection has told a federal court that the last stage of its IEEPA refund system opens on October 6. Roughly 11.4 billion dollars is at stake, and only importers who sued can touch it By the US Trade Desk WASHINGTON, September 20, 2026. United States Customs and Border Protection has confirmed that…

  • Tariff Pretext

    Importers filed their reply brief on September 18 accusing USTR of a check the box investigation across 60 economies. The Court of International Trade hears argument on September 30 in the third legal assault on the administration’s global tariff By the US Trade Desk NEW YORK, September 20, 2026. The last brief is in. On…

  • Refund Red Ink

    Tariff refunds ordered after the Supreme Court’s IEEPA ruling have exceeded new tariff collections every month since May, new data show, wiping out net customs revenue and complicating the administration’s fiscal claims WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2026 The federal government is now paying out more in tariff refunds than it collects in tariffs, a reversal without…

  • Tariff Refunds

    New data show the average US effective tariff rate fell to 7.1 percent as Customs certifies roughly 100 billion dollars in refunds from the invalidated IEEPA tariffs, the largest duty repayment operation in American history WASHINGTON, August 11, 2026 Six months after the Supreme Court struck down the emergency tariffs that defined the opening year…

  • $100B Refunded

    Customs and Border Protection tells the Court of International Trade it has returned 100 billion dollars of invalidated emergency-powers duties, but the hardest 11.4 billion dollars remains frozen behind a Justice Department appeal WASHINGTON, August 8, 2026 United States Customs and Border Protection has paid out 100 billion dollars in refunds of tariffs collected under…

  • Refund Rift

    Treasury has pushed roughly 100 billion dollars of struck-down emergency tariffs back to importers. A growing line of consumer class actions is now asking whose money it was in the first place By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026. Roughly 100 billion dollars in refunded tariff duties has been transferred to…

  • Refund Battle

    More than 120 billion dollars in unlawful tariff collections are working their way back to American importers, but an appeals court fight and a wall of filing deadlines could decide who actually gets paid WASHINGTON, August 4, 2026. Nearly six months after the Supreme Court declared the administration’s emergency tariffs unlawful, the largest duty refund…

  • Refund Standoff

    Customs’ Phase 3 refund machinery for the invalidated IEEPA tariffs came due at the end of July, but a government appeal has frozen billions owed to importers who never filed suit, and the fight over who gets paid is intensifying. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2026. The largest tariff refund operation in American history reached its most…