Costco is the latest business to file suit against the Trump administration for levying illegal tariffs and is seeking a refund of collected tariffs. Revlon, EssilorLuxottica, Kawasaki, Bumble Bee, and Yokohama Tire have already filed their suits.
Now *this* would be a class action lawsuit I'd really love to see. It would also be amazing if all Americans who specifically bought Canadian products could know that their money didn't end up also assisting the very policy they were protesting.
Not a lawyer, but I'd expect that if this succeeds it might open up a Pandora's box as small businesses and individuals line up to press their case. Having to process claims for that many separate tariff payers would be complicated and add some more balls in the air for an incompetent administration to juggle.
Alas, probably for these kind of reasons, the weasels of #SCOTUS will find some way to permit the 47 syndicate to avoid having to process refunds no matter how they decide.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/costco-sues-trump-tariff-refunds-rcna246860
It's important to keep in mind that this refund process wouldn't actually be THAT complicated since the US trade commissions already have those procedures on the books.
There are a TON of ways that tariff payments have to be adjusted under normal times, so those procedures are already part of the system. These refunds would simply trigger those.
There are a lot of folks who say the tariffs might be illegal, but it would be too disruptive to rule against them now. They need to know that it wouldn't actually be that disruptive to do the right thing.
