US customs agency says it is not yet able to reimburse tariff costs
Al Jazeera
The US agency says a system being worked out to mediate the disbursement of $166bn in tariff costs to more than 330,000 importers.
The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has announced it will need an additional 45 days to set up a system to process refund requests for the tariffs recently struck down by the Supreme Court.
The announcement came on Friday as lawyers representing CBP were called to a closed-door meeting with Judge Richard Eaton from the US Court of International Trade.
Eaton had ruled on Wednesday that the US government owes refunds to importers who were charged tariffs under President Donald Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
The invocation of that law for Trump’s sweeping tariff campaign was deemed illegal in a February 20 Supreme Court decision.
In a court filing (PDF) on Friday, Brandon Lord, the director of CBP’s trade policies programme, indicated the agency would not be able to comply with the ruling from Eaton this week, which proposed automatic tariff refunds with interest.
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