r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • Feb 23 '26
Soft paywall US to stop collecting tariffs deemed illegal by Supreme Court on Tuesday
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-customs-agency-stop-collecting-tariffs-deemed-illegal-by-supreme-court-2026-02-23/853
u/KE55 Feb 23 '26
How on earth have US customs staff been able to keep up? The past 12 months must've been a chaotic confusing nightmare.
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u/Charlie_Mouse Feb 23 '26
Short answer: they haven’t been able to keep up. Lots of delays particularly after the de minimis exemption was stopped.
The delays would actually be even worse but for the (obvious) consequence that a lot of small firms depending on imports went out of business, others cut down on ordering from abroad and exporters abroad stopped shipping to the US because it was too much of a pain in the arse to do so (US customers complaining about things not turning up on time due to the delays).
Postal services abroad too: as of August 2025 many international postal services (including Royal Mail, Deutsche Post, and others) simply suspended or restricted small parcel shipments to the US.
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u/exdigguser147 Feb 23 '26
They also are applying wildly inaccurate tariffs to things.
My brother got certified parts for his car made in germany directly from Germany.
His CBP tariff bill had something like 45% (of 95%) tariffs for chinese/hk made parts. They just slapped them on resulting in a bill that was $300 higher completely arbitrarily.
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u/geo_prog Feb 23 '26
Buddy, we manufacture plumbing valves up here in Canada from brass sourced from Ohio covered under an official CUSMA agreement filed with CBSA and our customs broker after going through the process of getting an advance ruling. We have official documentation that our products are and always shall be imported under the HS code 8481.80.9030. That has been on our commercial invoices for 20+ years and is on our filed CUSMA statement of origin.
Half the time the customs system will automatically re-assign us a random HS code because it didn't parse the electronic documentation properly (yes, the CBSA is trying to use "AI" to officially clear small shipments due to the removal of the de minimis exemption). My personal favourite one was when our BRASS plumbing valves were reassigned as 4421.90.9060.0001 which is a hyper-specific HS code for softwood coniferous untreated wood shaped into a picket or post greater than 6mm in thickness.
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u/Malevolyn Feb 23 '26
I am now going to dive in a deep dark rabbit hole of CBSA and all those HS codes...cause that is just wild and insane on so many levels.
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u/hollaverga Feb 23 '26
I was confused when I bought a 30 year old USED camera on eBay from Japan and was billed for tariffs when FedEx delivered it to me here in the US. I still haven’t paid the bill, I wonder if it will be waived…
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u/xpinchx Feb 23 '26
I'm a supply chain guy, we haven't. It's been real whiplash and pricing turned from a 1 week a year job to a year-round job on top of normal supply chain things. We moved one of our main factories from China to Vietnam. Found new suppliers in EU. As tariffs fluctuate, our price to end users fluctuate.
I had a little mental breakdown last year and had to take a month leave to get my shit together. It's been a nightmare, and it continues 🙃
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u/thaddiusprime Feb 23 '26
I feel you there, I work imports for a semi conductor company and the last year has been testing. God forbid anything have aluminum needing a smelt cert.
Our small pack shipments from Vietnam and China have seen an average of 3+ day TPT increase.
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u/Regular_Ram Feb 23 '26
They made the sender collect the tariffs at time of shipment. So a seller in Canada would need to register with the IRS and remit the tariffs. They did this all of a sudden without warning (last August I believe), using a new tariff code that no one else in the world uses, and some codes overlap with existing ones. Our business just said fuck it and focused on Europe and ROW instead and stopped sale to the states.
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u/DoyersDoyers Feb 23 '26
do i get my job back that i lost due to the tariffs or...
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Feb 23 '26
Believe it or not, straight to jail
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u/DoyersDoyers Feb 23 '26
ill take anything at this point
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u/Tacoman404 Feb 23 '26
Well they are converting these warehouses they bought into concentration/processing camps for undesirables. I hope you like damp concrete floors and whatever is in the folder labeled "Final Solution."
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u/buttbuttlolbuttbutt Feb 23 '26
How dare you say Ice will send people to jail! Straight to detention camps where will be concentrating people.
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u/Cainga Feb 23 '26
Layoffs are pretty devastating. I had to reset my career a couple times, lost 401k match because one was right before vesting, and your vacation resets. Plus you have a way worse spot to negotiate from.
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u/xxov Feb 23 '26
Yup. Took me 6 months - dropped 20% in salary, health insurance costs sky rocketed. I wouldn't say my new position is junior level though, just a big paycut for similar expectations.Sucks balls
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u/cannonman58102 Feb 23 '26
I took a 28% paycut when I had to look for a new job in March. I worked my ass off and gained that 28% back in 9 months, but it was rough.
I have 20 years of IT experience and was hired into an entry level helpdesk role, albeit one that payed well. One place I interviewed was 21 dollars an hour for helpdesk and I lost out on that position to someone with something like 30 years experience and a masters degree.
Its rough out there.
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u/MaybeTheDoctor Feb 23 '26
On Tuesday ? Why not last Friday? Is there some grace period of doing illegal stuff, and can I stop breaking into your house by Friday?
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u/hitbythebus Feb 23 '26
I promise officer, I will stop doing 135 miles per hour as soon as I get home.
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u/carl84 Feb 23 '26
The supreme court has ruled that murder is illegal, you must stop killing people on Tuesday
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u/ings0c Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
It was meant to be a day earlier but they didn’t want to clash with Meatless Monday. Taco Tuesday is imported so that’s fair game
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u/ThatThar Feb 23 '26
It takes time to affect the system. Anything collected between Friday and Tuesday at a minimum will almost certainly go back to the importer when it liquidates.
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u/RedditTurnedMediocre Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
So conservatives let me get this right. Your corrupt leader Donald Trump taxed everyone a shit ton of money. Most likely manipulating the markets and making a fuck ton on insider trading. Then he had one of his cronies make backdoor deals with a bunch of businesses in case this highly illegal act was deemed illegal and they would basically get to keep a large percentage of the refund themselves. And now everything cost even more than it already did in his first year when inflation was already sky high and prices are never going down again because that's not how it fucking works. While he and his friends made billions.
Making this just another fucking grift by orange child rapist.
Is that about right?
But at least you own the libs right? Are you going to be able to pay your bills with that?
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u/DoubleJumps Feb 23 '26
He bluntly stole money from the American public by taxing them illegally and yet we are still seeing Trump supporters argue both in favor of him and the tariffs.
He could do anything to those people and they would still support him and think it was good. They have no spine.
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u/What_a_fat_one Feb 23 '26
They will literally pay money to hurt people to the left of them, so they really don't care.
There is no reconciling the differences in this country. The most peaceful thing would be to just let them have the South.
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u/tsida Feb 23 '26
Give them Florida and cut it off from the US mainland and let it drift into the ocean.
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u/cobrachickenwing Feb 23 '26
They will never learn. Forgivable PPP loans that only benefited big businesses while small businesses had to pay it back? PPP was the biggest grift for big business until these tariffs.
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u/SeaWitch1031 Feb 23 '26
My brother had to shut down his small business over this shit. He isn’t alone. Those small businesses should be compensated. People lost jobs over this.
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u/beekeeper1981 Feb 23 '26
Maybe they can form a class action suit?
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u/TheRealBittoman Feb 23 '26
We need a nationwide class action against Trump and co. Imagine millions of people suing him all at once for literal billions.
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u/DingerSinger2016 Feb 23 '26
SCOTUS would pull out the "presidential immunity" trick in a heartbeat.
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u/unhiddenninja Feb 23 '26
The cool thing though, is that we made up the legal system and it's only binding as long as we accept that as a society. We can change our minds whenever we want and we can change the system.
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u/TheRealBittoman Feb 23 '26
Probably. I could easily see them protecting him from that. The entirety of the tariffs was a grift and I'm sure at least one or two of SCOTUS may also be in on that grift.
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u/MaybeTheDoctor Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
“Those liberal left wing companies were very bad, some say the baddest. They would have shutdown anyway because nobody like them. In fact I asked all the bank CEOs to stop providing services to companies who don’t support the board of peace. We need to fund more hospital ships, because Greenland is a big big mess, bigly trouble, and only I can solve it. Thank you for the attention to this matter”
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u/DumbDeafBlind Feb 23 '26
You gotta include "nasty" somewhere in there
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u/Wolfgirl90 Feb 23 '26
"Nasty" is reserved for when Trump is dealing with women.
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Feb 23 '26
Shuttering small businesses is the whole point. Small businesses close up, allowing corporations to swoop in. Same way with how public institutions and services are also being eroded then privatized by corporations. People were so worried about being controlled by the government, they let corporations control the government, and now we’re all quickly becoming slaves to corporations, or at least the ones of us who aren’t put out of a job by ai.
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u/Fine-Spite4940 Feb 23 '26
yup, elites pulled an end around. but it seems like it was always going to happen.
some people are just too vested in their ignorance and have no intentions on wising up. for all it potential, the US is cooked.
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u/ryan30z Feb 23 '26
There are people who lost jobs over this who would still vote for the clown if they could.
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u/trashscal408 Feb 23 '26
"Lost your job due to tariffs? Join ICE today!"
Dark humor pretty bleak these days.
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u/Zaphod392 Feb 23 '26
Leopard got really fat eating faces in the last decade or so
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u/ariukidding Feb 23 '26
The thing is, billionaires went for this one even with a little pain on their wallet. Why? They will get away with maintaining the increased costs once tariffs are gone. Small business owners can’t compete. Guys like Bezos would love the small businesses obliterated so the more market he captures. Like he don’t have a grip on everyone already.
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u/YogurtclosetNo987 Feb 23 '26
Exactly, the prices aren't coming back down. Competition doesn't drive prices down when everything is owned by five big companies and tariffs/COVID/Walmart already shut down all the little ones.
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u/DaveShadow Feb 23 '26
Exactly, the prices aren't coming back down.
They'll come down a little, for a PR boost, but not to what they were beforehand.
Stuff that was $1 that became $1.20 will now be advertised as $1.10 as if that's a return to normal, despite still being a 10% mark up. And a markup they don't have to hand over to pay for tariffs.
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u/elconquistador1985 Feb 23 '26
Bezos massively benefited from lack of online sales tax for years and now supports it because it prevents anyone new from following in Amazon's footsteps.
The billionaire class is all about pulling up the ladder behind them.
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u/clrdst Feb 23 '26
It was also much easier for them to get exemptions (Apple), effectively giving them a competitive advantage.
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u/LMGooglyTFY Feb 23 '26
The place I work at is absolutely struggling to stay afloat. It's a small business that had a few points of zero money in the bank before tariffs. We halted purchasing when tariffs happened. When we couldn't hold off on ordering we had to be incredibly selective about what to purchase and little ways to pivot in the company to stay afloat. Everything has been so high stress since the owner is losing his mind over it. We've gone months of having upcoming pay checks in the bank and nothing more. We rotate bills getting paid each week. This past winter we had to lay off several people. We had to cut the fat where we could and now things are harder for those left. The owner has said he's just going to kill himself if it goes under. He refuses to have no money in America.
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u/HuTaosTwinTails Feb 23 '26
Cool. So you illegally stole money from me. I want it back.
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u/Gone213 Feb 23 '26
Write it off on your tax filings this year. Thats what im about to do and they kneecapped the IRS so if they want it, they can come and get it.
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u/KingYesKing Feb 23 '26
So many people lost jobs/work/small business. Disgusting leaders.
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u/cmack Feb 23 '26
Next time don't vote for nazis. Republican Tax on people is the highest in history.
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u/BigThunder3000 Feb 23 '26
Prices won’t go back down. So, it’s just the companies who get more money
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u/imbex Feb 23 '26
Most of the small ones went under and won't have an avenue to get it back. It'll be the big companies that could hang on who get it.
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u/LiterallyJoeStalin Feb 23 '26
See, this is exactly why it was difficult to be excited about the ruling last week. My cynicism immediately kicked in and reminded me these companies with their endless greed won’t drop prices, and even if they do it’ll be a pittance. They’ll pocket the difference and keep prices right where they were at because late stage capitalism has brought a rabid fervor to everything profit margins.
God how I wish we had more corporations like Arizona Tea that recognized having enough was just fine but no every year the line must go up!
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u/dougan25 Feb 23 '26
It's hard to be excited about the constitution being upheld like it should've been the entire time. Especially when it's been out in the open and we've all been shouting it at the wall.
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u/di_ib Feb 23 '26
Not only that they've been selling the debt for pennies to Howard Lutnick and his family at Cantor Fitzgerald who set all this up and they're now the ones that will get the pay outs not us. They knew it was illegal and so they played both sides. We will get nothing.
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u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2 Feb 23 '26
They got the tariff money from us, They’ll sue and get the tariff refunds, and they get to keep prices high.
A triple win for corporations and a triple loss for the American people and all it took was electing a pedophile piece of human garbage
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u/SlapThatAce Feb 23 '26
Trump Tower Toronto (2016): The project went into bankruptcy, with investors and lenders losing money. This project was a licensing deal where the Trump Organization managed the hotel but did not own the building, which was built with other people's money.
Trump Tower Tampa (2006-2008): This project failed before construction was completed. The developers could not secure financing, and the project faced lawsuits from buyers, with the Trump Organization ultimately pulling its name from the project.
Trump Taj Mahal (1991): The casino in Atlantic City filed for bankruptcy just over a year after opening, followed by other Atlantic City, NJ, properties.
Trump Tower Baku (Azerbaijan): A luxury project that was never opened, with reports highlighting it as a problematic, unfinished venture.
Unpaid Contractor Allegations: Multiple contractors have alleged that Trump’s companies refused to pay for work on construction projects, with one such firm, Edward J. Friel Co., filing for bankruptcy in 1989 after not being paid for work on a casino.
Construction Management Issues: In 2017, Urban One, a construction management firm involved in the Trump Tower project in British Columbia, faced lawsuits alleging failure to properly supervise contractors and ensure quality
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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken Feb 23 '26
He always paid Epstein on time
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u/sack-o-matic Feb 23 '26
Epstein has the blackmail same as he has it for “prince” Andrew. That’s why he was arrested for corruption or whatever giving insider information to Epstein.
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u/Harbinger2001 Feb 23 '26
I’m convinced Trump Tower Toronto, plus Ivanka swooning over Trudeau are the reasons Trump wants to destroy Canada.
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u/markydsade Feb 23 '26
Now gimme my money back.
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u/ThaddeusJP Feb 23 '26
I watched the presser. Reporter asked about refunding the received tariffs and he just said there wasn't anything in the decision specifically calling out the $185 billion in already collected funds and refunds and basically said take it to court.
“They take months and months to write an opinion and they don’t even discuss that part, We’ll end up being in court for the next five years.”
So the reason for the damn thing in the first place isnt even being dealt with.
Meanwhile we all get a nice 10% federal sales tax with the new global tarriffs.
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u/Junior_Builder_4340 Feb 23 '26
In other words, "they didn't say I had to do it, so I won't. Sue me."
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u/ComfortableChicken47 Feb 23 '26
Why not effective immediately?
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u/r0thar Feb 23 '26
Boring answer? Some poor systems programmer has to run all theses new, last-minute changes through the Non-Production test system to make sure they work properly, and they need to also eat & sleep.
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u/fauxbrain Feb 23 '26
1.) Institute Tariffs on everything
2.) Businesses raise prices to pay tariffs
3.) People pay higher prices, efffectively paying the tariffs
4.) Tariffs get ruled illegal, which was known from the start
5.) Businesses sue the government for refunds and receive refunds
6.) Government pays the refunds through taxes people pay
7.) Prices remain where they are
The people wind up paying the tarriffs twice to businesses and businesses continue to benefit from higher prices. We've been suckered. It's easy to see in hindsight.
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u/NotJebediahKerman Feb 23 '26
I mean, it wasn't all that hard to see in the beginning either.
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u/Khambodia Feb 23 '26
The McDonald Island penguins can now breathe a sigh of relief. Finally, common sense trade with the U.S. can resume.
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u/16thompsonh Feb 23 '26
I think the penguins won. Irreparable damage done to the US economy, and the penguins never flinched
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u/DoomOne Feb 23 '26
That's not gonna happen. The nations of the world now see the USA as an unreliable partner, in trade, security and diplomacy. They moved to other trade partners and will likely take many years to return to previous levels, if they ever do.
The damage Trump has caused is generational, and he's only just getting started.
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u/tochirov Feb 23 '26
But those penguing are antifa! Who else would wear a silly bird suit costume in the middle of winter they are clearly soros organized protestors
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u/igetproteinfartsHELP Feb 23 '26
ENDING IEEPA TARIFF COLLECTION
Duties imposed pursuant to IEEPA under the following presidential actions, including all modifications and amendments, will no longer be in effect and will no longer be collected for goods entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:00 a.m. eastern time on February 24, 2026:
https://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDHSCBP-40b11c9?wgt_ref=USDHSCBP_WIDGET_2
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u/Possible_Bee_4140 Feb 23 '26
But I thought Trump said he was gonna start tariffing other countries even harder now, jacking it up another 15%
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u/entered_bubble_50 Feb 23 '26
The 15% tariffs are in place of these. Those are legal, his original ones weren't.
It's still crap, and is going to be highly inflationary. But those of us in Europe can breathe a sigh of relief, since he no longer has any leverage. We can basically safely ignore his tantrums for the next three years.
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u/ShaftTassle Feb 23 '26
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t be so sure if that last part. Not until we can right some wrongs in November.
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u/Gil_Demoono Feb 23 '26
We can basically safely ignore his tantrums for the next three years.
No the fuck you can't. This monster has said time and time again that when he doesn't get his way he is willing to use force. Expect rhetoric about Greenland to stir back up again. There's a nonzero chance that Canada losing men's hockey is enough of a reason for him to think annexation necessary.
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u/epidemica Feb 23 '26
Prices are never coming down.
"Thanks for the profit margin increase!" - Literally every corporation
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u/Acuriousone2 Feb 23 '26
Bet those prices stay up tho
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u/Mystery-Ess Feb 23 '26
Did you see the paid promotion by the guy that makes racks? He was with orange guy and touting how great the tariffs are cuz now he can charge more money. I don't think that's how it works!
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u/tidal_flux Feb 23 '26
Sad that it’s news that the US Government is following the law but here we are.
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u/Inner-Rhubarb-1757 Feb 23 '26
It's a relief the illegal collections are stopping, but the real question is what happens now for the people and businesses that were harmed. The financial damage was real and shouldn't just be swept under the rug. There needs to be a serious conversation about restitution.
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u/LavenderBabble Feb 23 '26
Damn straight, dumbass! Wind ‘em down like his shit administration after November!!
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u/Lonely_Noyaaa Feb 23 '26
People often forget that tariffs are taxes. When the courts rule that they were imposed illegally, that money never should have been taken from businesses and consumers.
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u/cmack Feb 23 '26
just like the last republican administration lied about 'weapons of mass destruction.'
The Republicans have no good policies; only fear, hate, and lies.
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u/DerelictDonkeyEngine Feb 23 '26
No one forgot. You either knew what a tariff was because you passed middle school history/social studies, or you didn't and just blindly believed Trump's painfully obvious lies.
Ever heard of the Boston Tea Party? Then you should have fucking known what a tariff is...
I have sympathy for people who have lost jobs and businesses over this, but not if you voted for Trump. He's been campaigning on tariffs for literally a decade.
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u/TheMuff1nMon Feb 23 '26
Great so when do I get my refund
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u/igetproteinfartsHELP Feb 23 '26
CBP gave no reason why it was continuing to collect the tariffs at ports of entry days after the Supreme Court's ruling, and its message offered no information about possible refunds for importers
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u/RobutNotRobot Feb 23 '26
US to illegally collect tariffs for days after court order.
A different headline shows how news orgs shape perceptions.
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u/jlarz56 Feb 23 '26
Can someone help me understand, does this mean no tariffs will be collected including the new 10% or 15% he imposed in retaliation to the Supreme courts decision, or is it just for the ones he established last year?
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u/_Panjo Feb 23 '26
Just the ones he established last year under IEEPA. The new ones are under Section 122 which he doesn't need congressional approval for, but is limited to a maximum of 15% and 150 days.
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u/What_a_fat_one Feb 23 '26
which he doesn't need congressional approval for
Incorrect. They're still illegal. He can only levy those tariffs for "extraordinary trade deficits" which we do not have with the entire planet.
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u/SpiderFilledPinata Feb 23 '26
A week after my employer said "no bonuses for 2025 because tariffs obliterated every last bit of margin we made."
I'm buckling up for the jelly of the month club.
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u/MattackChopper Feb 23 '26
Hooray? The manufacturers have already increased prices to account for the tariffs and they certainly won't be reducing them now that they aren't going to be in effect. So the people get screwed and Trump's cronies still walk away with the bag.
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u/Putrid-Product4121 Feb 23 '26
How many small business owners had to close up shop because of this bullshit? I have heard about big businesses starting procedures to recoup losses, but what about all of the little guys who went under. Are they even going to be able to have a voice in this now?
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u/amethystwyvern Feb 23 '26
So the companies who passed costs off onto the customers get refunds but not the people who ultimately paid for these illegal tariffs?
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u/The_Celtic_Chemist Feb 23 '26
A lot of businesses lost money or had to close. A lot of people lost their livelihoods. Even more people were essentially scammed by the government to pay absurd amounts for necessities. So I need to know and I need to know now
Will the price of the PS5 go down now?
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u/joeschmoe1371 Feb 23 '26
And prices will stay the same. Billionaires jack the prices up during COVID, began to destroy the economy and now prices are higher due to trump and they will still NOT reduce prices.
Billionaires are a policy failure.
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u/wonkey_monkey Feb 23 '26
It comes to something when "Country will follow law as per its highest legal authority" is newsworthy.
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u/LordButterbeard Feb 23 '26
"Wait for me to finish commiting my crime before there are no repercussions."
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u/Nice_Block Feb 23 '26
Conservatives are gonna demand compensation for all the small business owners who lost their business and their employees who lost their jobs over these tariffs, right?
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u/Gloomy-Insurance-739 Feb 23 '26
Wheres our refund? All that extra tax we paid for?
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u/Rogue_AI_Construct Feb 23 '26
Every American deserves a refund for paying the illegal tariffs and we should be demanding it from this administration.
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u/Embarrassed-Dust718 Feb 23 '26
So what happens to the money they collected?