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According to the President, tariffs have already brought in $8 TRILLION dollars. [1]

Might be hard to issue refunds.

1. https://reason.com/2025/09/02/the-white-house-says-trumps-ta...

Because I've ran into the same issue. I don't think this is actually the tariff. I'm almost 100% positive this is the shipping companies (UPS, and FedEx, but UPS seems to be the biggest culprit) are slamming receivers with massive bills because they are miscategorizing many items coming from Europe.

I would be surprised if the money was being held in escrow and could be refunded. Actually the Trump admin is using this as an argument to the SC as to why making the tariffs unconstitutional is a bad idea.

Indeed. The moral of the story is that it’s ideal to do illegal acts which are difficult to undo, as it’ll give the judiciary greater pause.

This reminds me of the quote

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Kind of the same idea, sorta.