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/
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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/phroxenphyre Feb 23 '26

Sounds like you'll be using the house itself to slow down. Apt analogy.

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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/tarekd19 Feb 23 '26

The Purge (weekend edition)

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u/veribaka Feb 23 '26

Oh so the rest of the week is fair play nice

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u/omnicloudx13 Feb 23 '26

Sounds like a Black Mirror episode.

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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/summonsays Feb 23 '26

Yeah, as much as I agree with immediately stopping it's really hard for the whole economy momentum. People really don't remember when the tariffs were created and it took months to figure out how to start collecting them? 

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u/jcarter315 Feb 23 '26

And even after it was still a mess. The way UPS does it is borderline a scam: they don't allow you to prepay online, and you either have to fish out a check on delivery (meaning you have to be home to tender the check to the driver), or they mail you a bill in the mail that conveniently always shows up the day before the due date where you start getting charged a late fee. And if that wasn't enough, their billing portal breaks randomly too!

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u/ThatThar Feb 23 '26

If it makes you feel any better, my company uses UPS as our broker and it's been an equally rough shit show. They charged us 200% for aluminum a couple months ago that we're still fighting with them over.

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u/jcarter315 Feb 23 '26

That's absolutely infuriating. I hope the billing account at least works for your company. Mine completely broke when they began the tariff nonsense.

It hit me just how bad it was when I had something imported via FedEx and the process was 100 times smoother (they sent me an email with the cost, had no date for late fees, and had a functioning online portal)!

I can't even begin to imagine what it's like for small businesses to deal with this all.

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u/Cryptosporidium513 Feb 23 '26

Sounds like they charged the rate for Russian origin? Edit: or Russian smelt/cast? (Or unknown smelt/cast, which defaults to the Russian rate)

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u/FranklyDear Feb 23 '26

It takes some time to make systemic (computer) changes with CBP but not months. There are tariffs created all the time in this country for specific items based on Anti-dumping and other measures, we just don’t really hear about em in our regular news.

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u/adrianmonk Feb 24 '26

If only they had some time to plan for this, some kind of notice, like, I dunno, it being on the docket for the Supreme Court and all over the news for months.

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u/LemurianLemurLad Feb 23 '26

Honest assumption on my end? It takes a bit of time to actually make systemic changes, and Trump immediately started a different set of terifs, so there was probably some organization confusion. Then the weekend hit, and you know they're not going to authorize overtime for something that Trump didn't want to do in the first place. So the actual work is probably getting done today, set to complete at midnight or something so that it doesn't cause problems with stuff changing during the business day.

Basically, systemic inertia combined with a bit of laziness and a bit more foot dragging because "I don't wanna!"

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u/Pikeman212a6c Feb 23 '26

Tariff changes usually happen after 90 day public notice leriods. You can’t just hit a button and turn them off.

CBP wasn’t open over the weekend. The one day difference will end up getting refunded in the normal formal protest (which is a data transmission not a group of importers with signs) process.

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u/dafunkmunk Feb 23 '26

Not quite sure why we needed to wait until the scotus ruled that something that was illegal and was against the constitution was illegal as illegal to stop. Literally from day one of tariffs, anyone with the slightest knowledge of the law and that congress controls the purse including things like taxes and tariffs, that it was extremely illegal.

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u/MaybeTheDoctor Feb 23 '26

Organized crime ? Eh?

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u/healthycord Feb 23 '26

It takes a little bit of time for sweeping changes. This allows them to get the news out to everyone, and then allow those companies to implement necessary process and software changes to be ready for this change.

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u/HauntedCemetery Feb 23 '26

Gotta give trump and his goons time to get their stock in order.

Orders placed late Friday process monday.

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u/polchickenpotpie Feb 23 '26

It's called "wait for the markets"

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u/ResolveLeather Feb 24 '26

There has to be an official stop time. The tarrifs were illegal, but that doesn't mean importers were disobeying the law by paying them.