Loss: Even if the Supreme Court is on Trump’s tariff, it is possible that consumers will not see ten cents of recovered amounts

“We have trillion dollars to our country,” Trump said on Wednesday. “If we do not have a tariff, we will be a very poor nation and every other country in the world and a friend and an enemy will benefit from it.”

But two trials now have now that his larger and most bolder strikes are illegal. If the Supreme Court agrees and beat them forever, the federal government may have to pay many of the already collected taxes from companies that import foreign products to the United States.

“We are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars that are likely to be in the recovered amounts that affect thousands and thousands of importers,” said commercial lawyer Luis Arandia, a partner with the Barnes & Thorneberg law office. “All of this will be the largest administrative effort in the history of the US government.”

It is unlikely that ordinary Americans, who had to pay higher prices on some products due to the customs tariff. Any recovered amounts will instead go to the companies that paid the fees in the first place.

The recovered amounts also reflect the flow of customs tariff revenues that the president considered to help pay the price A huge tax bill signed on July 4 He threatens, warns of “literally destroying the United States.”

In the case, it is the revenues that were raised from the definitions that Trump imposed this year by calling 1977 Economic Forces Law in International Emergency Cases (IEPA). One group of IEPA tariffs targeted almost every country on Earth after declaring that the massive and continuous trade deficit in the United States had reached a national emergency. Another was aiming at Canada, China and Mexico and was aiming to face the illegal flow of drugs and migrants across the United States borders.

but A specialized federal trade court ruled in New York in May The president exceeded his authority by ignoring Congress and imposing an IEPA tariff. the The American Court of Appeal for the Federal Department last week was largely supported The Commercial Court’s decision, although it also ordered the lower court to reconsider whether there is any legal solution to completely striking the definitions.

The appeal judges also arrested their ruling until mid-October to give the administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court-which is an order I did on Wednesday. Public Prosecutor d. John Sawir is the judges to take the case and hear the arguments in early November.

If the Supreme Court strikes the IEPA tariff, the importers can be entitled to recover. US Customs and Border Protection reports that she had it It raised more than 72 billion dollars in the IEPA tariff Until August 24.

“It is a matter of what you must do to recover money,” said Ted Murphy, the co -leader of international trade at Cedley Austin Law Company.

“The options are everything from nothing – the government may recover them automatically; I don’t think this is possible, but this is one option.

There is a precedent for courts that constitute a system to give companies their money in commercial cases. In the nineties, the courts led to the lack of constitutionality of the port maintenance fees on exports and the preparation of a system for exporters to apply for their money.

Murphy said: “The companies got recovers,” Murphy said. The government had to pay the government to the tax it collected and had to pay it. It is not clear whether the government has to pay anybody to recover IEPA tariff.

The Trump administration may have retracted the collected definitions. Trump has already said he did not want to pay money, and posted his social media site in August that doing this “will be in 1929 again, which is a great depression!”

“I expect that if the administration is lost, they will turn and start arguing why it will be impossible to give the amounts recovered to all,” said Brent Scorp, a legal colleague at the Kato Tahrir Institute. “I think there is a lot of litigation about the nature of the recovered amounts and those entitled. I expect management to raise all kinds of objections.”

Clinton Yu, partner of Barnes & Thornburg, said that they were able to demand the recovery of the recovered sums.

In addition to uncertainty is The chaotic method that Trump put forward his definitions Advertising, then delay or change it, and sometimes bring it new. Sometimes, the administration decided that importers who have already paid a customs tariff had no different payment.

The customs tariff is paid by importers, who often try to transfer the cost to their customers through higher prices. But consumers will not have to resort to ordering the recovered amounts for the high prices they had to pay.

“He is an imported registration legally responsible for paying customs duties and duties.” They will be the only one to stand up to restore this money. “

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AP Lindsay Whitehurst and Josh Boak’s book contributed to this story.

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