A refund system for businesses that paid tariffs which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Donald Trump imposed without the constitutional authority to do so is scheduled to launch Monday.
Importers and their brokers will be able to begin claiming refunds through an online portal beginning at 8 a.m., according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency administering the system.
It’s the first step in a complicated process that also might eventually lead to refunds for consumers who were billed for some or all of the tariffs on products shipped to them from outside the United States.
Companies already increased prices more than the tariffs cost them and we paid them. Now they get extra profits on top of their profits while we don’t get jack shit. Companies won’t decrease prices back to pre-tariff levels after they get their refunds either so…fuck consumers I guess!
Hurray I love capitalism!
Yeah where’s the portal where consumers get to apply for a refund check?
Sounds and feels very much like the PPP scams during the pandemic.
But really guys, it’s the welfare moms and immigrant childcare workers that are scamming this country and the reason there are no more $1 burgers to be found anywhere!!! /s
Time and time again, it’s the end user/consumer that the buck gets passed to. The owner class gets bailed out by us from the problems they create for us, then they tell us there’s no money to be found to provide even the most base level of assistance. And when we pitch enough of a fit for them to throw us a few pennies, it’s shoved in our faces again and again as some sort of handout that ‘proves’ how reliant we are on them. Abuse tactics 101, and like the abused we don’t know where else to go.