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Federal Express sued the U.S. government, seeking a “full refund” of the money the shipping giant paid for tariffs unilaterally imposed by Donald Trump, which the Supreme Court last week ruled were illegal.
FedEx’s suit appears to be the first one filed by a major U.S. company after the Supreme Court decision seeking a refund of the tariffs it has paid.
Other companies filed lawsuits seeking refunds before the high court ruled that the tariffs Trump imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act are illegal.
Real talk…
I ordered some shit not thinking about tarrifs, and one item from Slovenia where the seller explicitly reached out to say there’s be tariffs and to make sure it was cool since some Americans flipped out…
I never paid a single tariff.
Like, when exactly were people getting charged?
The times the seller didn’t do that
Weird, it was just the first sentence at first.
Yeah, that’s what I expected, didn’t happen tho.
I know it raised the prices of things in America, but I meant explicitly ordering things from other countries that should have been tariffed, and no one ever tariffed me
Could be that the delivery service absorbed the cost in order to not scare its customers. Might have raised their service fees instead.
It kind of amazes me that you’ve managed to navigate the previous year without understanding this but…
You’ve been paying the tariffs every time you consume anything at all, it’s just that no one called you to inform you that some component of what you’ve paid is a tariff.
Suppose there are 2 brands of toothbrush at the shop, one from China and one from the US. They’re equivalent in every way and last year they were $1 each. Since the tariffs, goods from China have attracted a 50% (?) tariff, so if the cost price is $0.90, then the new cost is $1.35, plus a markup for the shop and that’s $1.50. The problem, if it’s not already obvious, is that the US producer can just increase the price of their toothbrushes to $1.35.
The really daft part is, the US producer’s costs will have increased with tariffs in the same way, and their employees spending power will have decreased.
As an aside, IIRC you’ve often opined that voting for Kamala would have been tantamount to supporting genocide. I think we might have had some discussions around that. Your comment provides a fascinating insight into the kind of cognitive ability that supports that position, so thank you for that.
FedEx was sending out invoices 1-2 weeks after delivery.
Hey just a shot in the dark here, but was it a puzzle book? My favorite puzzle book guy is from Slovenia.
That would have been way more mature…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Pd3OuKIPc
I bought expired Italian soft body armor from a youtuber name Ziga
I ordered a PC from China a couple of weeks ago. I got an email saying they were declaring the item’s value to be $80 to mitigate tariffs. I expected to have to pay something when it arrived, but it was just dropped at my doorstep like any other delivery.