Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs
The Trump administration has begun accepting applications from businesses seeking refunds for more than $166bn in tariffs, months after the supreme court ruled that the president had no legal authority to impose them.
The administration launched on Monday the digital claims system, named Cape, which they said in court filings could handle about 63% of affected import filings, with the remainder to follow.
Writing for the majority in February, Chief Justice John Roberts said the 1977 emergency statute Trump had invoked provided no such sweeping authority to implement the tariffs. Two of the president’s own appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, joined the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh were the dissenters.
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UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 100 pts · 124d
You know who's not getting that money? Us!
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 124d
Despite most companies jacking up prices to more than cover the tariffs. So they profited 2X.
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 124d
Wouldn't those companies track us down and pass the refund on to us??
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 124d
Suckling newborns don't give mothers milk back if they've been overfed. They puke it up.
Edit: I meant nursing, don't judge me, I'm very tired.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 124d
*Unless you’re a Costco member
village604@adultswim.fan · 11 pts · 124d
That's because Costco was a bro and ate the cost of the tariffs. Solid marketing move on their part.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 45 pts · 124d
If only the courts could actually respond to major governmental overreach in a timely manner the general public wouldn't have $166B stolen from them. They somehow always defer to just letting the administration do the thing even when it's a major change and doing so causes injury to regular people who cannot recoup it.
This could have been quashed in May 2025 when the lower courts ruled against an obviously unconstitutional usurpation of the power to lay tariffs. Instead they stayed the ruling at each appeal and waited until the Supreme Court found the exact same result as every lower court in December. And that was them moving quickly.
fozid@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 124d
Could have also not voted for the clown and that would have saved the world and the us a lot of bother.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 37 pts · 124d
Bet this works as well as the PPP Covid payments did. No oversight, lots of big businesses that weren't really eligible draining the funds before real small businesses got anything, and no accountability.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 124d
Too bad the people who really paid these tariffs won't get a penny back
patruelis@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 124d
What about the people who actually paid the tariffs?
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · -7 pts · 124d
If you have receipts for the tariffs you paid you should be able to apply for your refund.
lemmock@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 124d
So the receipts for basically everything I've bought for the past year or so? Got it.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 124d
Technically speaking you didnt pay the tarrif, you paid the inflated price due to tariffs. The compnay/person paying for the import paid the tarrif.
Its like when you buy a coconut at the store. You didn't technically pay for the shipping of it, but that cost was reflected in the price.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol · 10 pts · 124d
So then
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 124d
You can't get a refund for something you didn't pay for directly. If this administration actually cared they could have given a tax rebate back directly to the consumers since we know the vast majority of importers passed the cost along to consumers.
You can't present just a groccery bill, you'd have to prove which items were impacted by the tarrif and by how much.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol · 4 pts · 124d
Obviously not, hence the obvious answer "they get fucked"
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 124d
No - for the tariffs you paid specifically.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 124d
This could be one of the dumbest policy failures in history
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 124d
Just another wealth transfer to the rich.
fizzle@quokk.au · 11 pts · 124d
Yeah it's been fantastically successful in that regard.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 124d
Confirming that Trump's claim the exporting countries were paying the tariffs was complete BS.
kikutwo@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 124d
How do I submit for reimbursement of all the increased prices paid due to the illegal tariffs?
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 124d
Go to nearest big retailer that most likely got the refund and you purchased from and choose an item of value equal to the amount you paid. Now walk out.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 124d
Lol no shit, fuck these companies
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 124d
To the capitalists not the consumers.
inari@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 124d
Fuckin dumbass
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 124d
The rich profited, ordinary people lost. Another successful day for the US Government.
Triumph@fedia.io · 7 pts · 124d
Open transfer of wealth from labor to owners.
Fuck capitalism.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 6 pts · 124d
American families paid for the tariffs in increased prices, now the refunds will go directly to corporate executives. I for one never saw it coming. Who is playing the real 4d chess?
cashsky@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 124d
How much of it is going to that fucking snake Nutlik through his tarrif loan-refund scheme?
Rusticus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
300 million people in the US. $166bn in refunds is about $500 for every man woman and child in the US. Fuck you Trump and all the oligarchs!!!