The US government has been ordered by a federal judge to start reimbursing President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, which the US Supreme Court said were unlawful in late February. According to budget specialists, this may eventually provide importers a $168–$188 billion refund.
Senior Judge Richard Eaton of the Court of International Trade ordered the Customs and Border Protection agency to report on Friday its preliminary ideas for a refund plan that would prevent thousands of individual lawsuits, though the process for doing so is still unclear.Eaton stated during a hearing on Wednesday, “I want to make it clear to the customs service that they have to refund any money that was unlawfully collected.
The following provides official data and projections on tariff collections: PENN WHARTON BUDGET MODEL Between February 4, 2025, and February 23, 2026, CBP received up to $182 billion in gross revenue from tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, according to economists at this University of Pennsylvania fiscal research group. The estimate, created at Reuters’ request, uses a forecasting methodology developed from scratch and compares tariffs across over 11,000 product categories in 233 countries.
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