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Trump talks tariffs and Supreme Court ruling
Trump talks tariffs and a Supreme Court ruling recently that struck down his use of emergency tariffs.
In early March, a federal judge ruled that companies that paid tariffs struck down in February by the Supreme Court are due refunds.
The backstory:
The Supreme Court found some of Trump’s tariffs to be unconstitutional under the emergency powers law. They struck down a core set of tariffs that Trump imposed on almost every country in the world in 2025 using the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA.
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Companies sue for tariff refunds
FILE - In this aerial view a truck drives among stacked shipping containers in Hamburg Port on April 15, 2025 in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Big picture view:
The courts and U.S. customs have never had to deal with anything like this — thousands of importers and tens of billions of dollars at once.
By the numbers:
The Treasury had collected more than $133 billion from the import taxes the president has imposed under the emergency powers law as of December, federal data shows.
More than 1,000 companies have filed suit in the U.S. Court of International Trade in efforts to recoup costs from the illegal tariffs, according to The Associated Press.
Dig deeper:
More than 1,000 companies have filed suit in the U.S. Court of International Trade in efforts to recoup costs from the illegal tariffs.
Here are some of the biggest companies to file suit:
- FedEx
- Costco
- Toyota subsidiaries
- Bumble Bee Foods
- Revlon
The other side:
Consumers are unlikely to enjoy a refund. The higher prices they’ve had to pay would likely be hard to attribute to a specific tariff.
The Source: Information in this article was taken from The Associated Press. This story was reported from Detroit.