Tag: Trade Litigation
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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…
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US Customs and Border Protection opens the third and hardest phase of its emergency-tariff refund program on October 6, unlocking an estimated 11.4 billion dollars in finally liquidated entries. Only importers who sued can walk through the door. WASHINGTON, October 3, 2026 The largest customs refund operation in American history enters its final and most…
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A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade heard arguments this week on whether the administration’s forced-labor tariffs, covering roughly 99 percent of U.S. imports from 60 trading partners, exceed the authority Congress granted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2026. The legal foundation of the United…
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A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade takes up whether Section 301 can carry a global tariff, eight months after the Supreme Court struck down the last one WASHINGTON, September 30, 2026. The legal architecture holding up the United States tariff regime faces its most serious test since February when a three-judge panel…
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A three-judge panel hears argument Wednesday on the Section 301 forced labor tariffs covering 60 economies. It is the administration’s third tariff statute in a year, and the first one that says the word “duties” out loud. NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2026 – The Court of International Trade hears oral argument Wednesday morning in consolidated…
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More than $121 billion in claims and roughly $100 billion paid out, yet the small importers who absorbed the cost of the invalidated IEEPA tariffs say the money is landing everywhere except with them. A refund program built for importers of record is now colliding with class actions, congressional bills and the midterm campaign. WASHINGTON,…
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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…
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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…
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A Quebec remanufacturer that spent seven years outside the U.S. countervailing duty order on softwood lumber has been put back inside it, and the case that did it is a warning about how long trade litigation can run and how little finality a favourable rate confers. WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2026. The U.S. Department of Commerce…
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Two Georgetown scholars who helped dismantle the IEEPA tariffs published a detailed roadmap this week for challenging Trump’s Section 338 duties on Canada, arguing the measures fail the statute’s own offset requirement by a factor of nearly two WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2026 – The legal case against the tariffs that hit Canadian exporters on Aug. 19 was…