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mahatmakanejeeves

(69,203 posts) Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:05 AM Yesterday

US customs agency says it cannot comply with tariff refund order

Source: Financial Times, via Reuters

US customs agency says it cannot comply with tariff refund order

By Reuters
March 6, 2026 10:37 AM EST Updated 23 mins ago

WILMINGTON, Del., March 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Customs and ‌Border Protection agency is unable to comply with a court ⁠order directing it to refund tariffs that the Supreme Court has ruled illegal, the agency said in a ‌court ⁠filing with the U.S. Court for International Trade ⁠on Friday.

Reporting by Tom Hals in ⁠Wilmington, Delaware; writing by ⁠Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto; editing by Susan Heavey

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/us-customs-agency-says-it-cannot-comply-with-tariff-refund-order-2026-03-06/

That's the whole story at Reuters right now.

The FT is subscription-only. I think this is the link:

https://www.ft.com/content/0315349e-763e-4faa-a5b1-c02ce7801cbd

My suggestion: put a lien on the 747 that Qatar so generously gave to the United States. Auction it off to the highest bidder and use the proceeds to start paying off what's owed.

Hat tip, Kevin M. Kruse

Pretty sure when they started imposing this idiocy they assured a bunch of judges that they would be able to refund the money with no problem if it ever came to that.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2026-03-06T15:53:07.808Z

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Kevin M. Kruse
‪@kevinmkruse.bsky.social‬

Pretty sure when they started imposing this idiocy they assured a bunch of judges that they would be able to refund the money with no problem if it ever came to that.

‪FinTwitter‬
‪@fintwitter.bsky.social‬
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U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION UNABLE TO COMPLY WITH COURT ORDER DIRECTING TARIFF REFUNDS -COURT FILING
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U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION UNABLE TO COMPLY WITH COURT ORDER DIRECTING TARIFF REFUNDS -COURT FILING
— FinTwitter (@fintwitter.bsky.social) 2026-03-06T15:25:20.194081+00:00

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FinTwitter
‪@fintwitter.bsky.social‬

U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION UNABLE TO COMPLY WITH COURT ORDER DIRECTING TARIFF REFUNDS -COURT FILING
10:25 AM ï¿½ Mar 6, 2026
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Apparently, the original source is the Financial Times:

www.reuters.com/business/us-...
— Jeffrey Brown (@texasgeologist.bsky.social) 2026-03-06T15:43:50.979Z

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Jeffrey Brown
‪@texasgeologist.bsky.social‬

Apparently, the original source is the Financial Times:

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-companies-are-being-denied-refunds-trumps-illegal-tariffs-ft-reports-2026-03-06/

US companies denied refunds on Trump's illegal tariffs, FT reports
The U.S. government has declined to refund tariffs the Supreme Court ruled illegal last month, the Financial Times ‌reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
www.reuters.com
10:43 AM ï¿½ Mar 6, 2026
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US customs agency says it cannot comply with tariff refund order (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday OP

Has the money mysteriously moved somewhere? cutroot Yesterday #1

To the back dweller Yesterday #6

Trump is good at laundering money, so, probably yes. Baitball Blogger Yesterday #14

good at grifting money quakerboy 20 hrs ago #22

It never saw... 2naSalit 23 hrs ago #19

Why the hell not? Ocelot II Yesterday #2

This will be good. Get stocked up on popcorn. sinkingfeeling Yesterday #3

Anything but obey the courts bucolic_frolic Yesterday #4

a simple solution. make the orange pedo pay the refunds personally moonshinegnomie Yesterday #5

Like everything else tariffs were imposed with reckless haste Klarkashton Yesterday #7

Here's the earlier Reuters article. mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday #8

Sign of things to come! bluestarone Yesterday #9

Unable... or unwilling. ananda Yesterday #10

I thought Treasury Secretary Bessent displacedvermoter Yesterday #11

Where's the money Lebowski? nt EarthFirst Yesterday #12

Take the refunds out of the ICE budget. Nt Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #13

Financial Times: US companies denied refunds on Trump's illegal tariffs mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday #15

US Judge to Meet Parties on Trump-Tariff Refunds in Closed-Door 'Settlement Conference' mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday #16

The Court refused an injunction on these illegal tariffs because the admin argued they could simply refund. mathematic Yesterday #17

The companies aren't getting their refunds, Bayard 23 hrs ago #18

the money to pay for all the doge crap quakerboy 20 hrs ago #23

You complied with collecting the illegal tariffs, motherfuckers Mysterian 22 hrs ago #20

Jail them Old Crank 20 hrs ago #21

why? quakerboy 20 hrs ago #24

cutroot

(1,026 posts)

1. Has the money mysteriously moved somewhere?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:07 AM

Yesterday

dweller

(28,193 posts)

6. To the back

Reply to cutroot (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:14 AM

Yesterday

Pocket of the fat pisswigged grifter in chief

✌🏻

Baitball Blogger

(52,155 posts)

14. Trump is good at laundering money, so, probably yes.

Reply to cutroot (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:38 AM

Yesterday

quakerboy

(14,828 posts)

22. good at grifting money

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #14)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 03:59 PM

20 hrs ago

Good at losing money. Not sure he can be called good at laundering it.

2naSalit

(102,001 posts)

19. It never saw...

Reply to cutroot (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 12:44 PM

23 hrs ago

the Treasury account, it's all been distributed into -45's accounts and he has no intent in paying any of it to anyone.

Ocelot II

(130,191 posts)

2. Why the hell not?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:08 AM

Yesterday

But wouldn't the refunds come directly from the Treasury Department, since that's where the tariffs are paid in the first place?

sinkingfeeling

(57,698 posts)

3. This will be good. Get stocked up on popcorn.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:09 AM

Yesterday

bucolic_frolic

(54,812 posts)

4. Anything but obey the courts

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:09 AM

Yesterday

Expect foot dragging and stonewalling on everything

moonshinegnomie

(3,993 posts)

5. a simple solution. make the orange pedo pay the refunds personally

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:10 AM

Yesterday

Klarkashton

(5,205 posts)

7. Like everything else tariffs were imposed with reckless haste

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:16 AM

Yesterday

No thought given to anything but a rush to comply with a stupid trump proclamation.

mahatmakanejeeves

(69,203 posts)

8. Here's the earlier Reuters article.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:20 AM

Yesterday

US companies denied refunds on Trump’s illegal tariffs, FT reports

By Reuters
March 6, 2026 5:14 AM EST Updated 3 hours ago

March 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. government has declined to refund tariffs the Supreme Court ruled illegal last month, the Financial Times ‌reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. ... The customs officials are denying companies' requests to recover duties imposed under emergency powers invoked by U.S. President Donald Trump, leaving businesses uncertain and ⁠driving more disputes into court, the FT said.

The U.S. government collected more than $130 billion in illegal tariff payments, which were central to Trump's trade policy. The Supreme Court did not provide guidance for issuing refunds, creating confusion over how importers would be reimbursed.

On Wednesday, a U.S. trade court judge ordered the government to begin ‌paying ⁠potentially billions of dollars in refunds to importers who paid tariffs. ... Many companies have rushed to submit Post Summary Corrections to remove International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariff codes ⁠from shipment entries and seek refunds, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been rejecting those submissions and suspending protests ⁠filed over repayments of IEEPA tariffs that had already been liquidated, the FT said.

Reuters could not immediately ⁠verify the report. The White House and CBP did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

Reporting by Devika Nair in Bengaluru Editing by Tomasz Janowski

bluestarone

(22,000 posts)

9. Sign of things to come!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:21 AM

Yesterday

They will say fuck the courts, fuck congress. There thoughts will be "What are you gonna do about it?" That's where we are at.

ananda

(34,878 posts)

10. Unable... or unwilling.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:21 AM

Yesterday

Well, to be fair, an illegal war is very costly.

But then, so is moving money into Trump's
shitlined pockets.

displacedvermoter

(4,213 posts)

11. I thought Treasury Secretary Bessent

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:22 AM

Yesterday

could just write a check. That is what he said he would do when asked about paying Trump for his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS? No problem, right?

EarthFirst

(4,076 posts)

12. Where's the money Lebowski? nt

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:25 AM

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Fiendish Thingy

(22,855 posts)

13. Take the refunds out of the ICE budget. Nt

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:28 AM

Yesterday

mahatmakanejeeves

(69,203 posts)

15. Financial Times: US companies denied refunds on Trump's illegal tariffs

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:41 AM

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Financial Times
‪@financialtimes.com‬

US companies denied refunds on Trump’s illegal tariffs
ft.trib.al/niHJonr

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US companies denied refunds on Trump’s illegal tariffs
Customs officials are rejecting attempts to reclaim duties that were struck down by the Supreme Court
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11:19 AM · Mar 6, 2026

US companies denied refunds on Trumpâ€™s illegal tariffs ft.trib.al/niHJonr
— Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) 2026-03-06T16:19:39.586920Z

mahatmakanejeeves

(69,203 posts)

16. US Judge to Meet Parties on Trump-Tariff Refunds in Closed-Door 'Settlement Conference'

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:46 AM

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John Navas ⛵🌉
‪@jnavas.com‬

US Judge to Meet Parties on Trump-Tariff Refunds in Closed-Door 'Settlement Conference' @reuters.com 🍿
• Government says millions of records may need manual review 🙄
• Around 2,000 refund lawsuits filed by US importers 😮
• Conference scheduled for 10:30 a.m. ET
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-meet-parties-trump-tariff-refunds-closed-door-settlement-conference-2026-03-06/

Exclusive: US judge to meet parties on Trump-tariff refunds in closed-door 'settlement conference'
A U.S. judge will meet behind closed doors with government lawyers on Friday seeking to hammer out a process to refund up to $175 billion in illegally collected tariffs, a meeting a court official de...
www.reuters.com
10:54 AM · Mar 6, 2026

US Judge to Meet Parties on Trump-Tariff Refunds in Closed-Door 'Settlement Conference' @reuters.com ðŸ¿
â€¢ Government says millions of records may need manual review ðŸ™„
â€¢ Around 2,000 refund lawsuits filed by US importers ðŸ˜®
â€¢ Conference scheduled for 10:30 a.m. ET
www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
— John Navas â›µðŸŒ‰ (@jnavas.com) 2026-03-06T15:54:21.719Z

Exclusive: US judge to meet parties on Trump-tariff refunds in closed-door 'settlement conference'

By Tom Hals
March 6, 2026 12:19 AM EST Updated 49 mins ago

Summary
* Government says unable to comply with court order
* Around 2,000 refund lawsuits filed by US importers on illegal tariffs

March 6 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge will meet behind closed doors with government lawyers on Friday seeking to hammer out a process to refund up to $166 billion in illegally collected tariffs, a meeting a court official described as a "settlement conference."

Judge Richard Eaton of the U.S. Court of International Trade will meet with lawyers representing ‌the customs agency responsible for reimbursing more than 300,000 importers that paid the tariffs, which were struck down last month as unconstitutional.

Just as the meeting was scheduled to start, a top customs official informed the court that his agency was unable to comply with the judge's directive earlier this week to use its existing system to generate automatic tariff refunds. Businesses have raised concerns about what they expect to be a months- or years-long process to get refunds.

U.S. courts are presumed to be open to the public, although judges will sometimes hold private meetings with parties to discuss scheduling or how to handle sensitive information.

{snip}

Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; Editing by Noeleen Walder, Dan Burns, William Mallard and David Gaffen

mathematic

(1,609 posts)

17. The Court refused an injunction on these illegal tariffs because the admin argued they could simply refund.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:55 AM

Yesterday

It's plainly obvious that they should have stopped the implementation of these tariffs until they were found to be legal.

It's plainly obvious that they must stop the replacement tariffs immediately until they are found to be legal. (They aren't.)

Bayard

(29,349 posts)

18. The companies aren't getting their refunds,

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 12:31 PM

23 hrs ago

And we aren't getting our tariff dividends. My goodness--where has all that money gone?

The Supremes will have to order him to return the money. They should have done it while they decided they were illegal. Companies will wait years for that money, or until Dems are back in power. We will have to clean up another trump mess that we will probably get blamed for.