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Comment by fuoqi

3 days ago

Let the fun of returning hundreds of billions of the illegal tariff revenue back to importers through litigation begin!

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sowbug  3 days ago

Will I get back the $17 DHL charged to collect the $1 tariff on the cat toys I bought from China?

Actual event may not have occurred, but DHL flat fee is real.

  • TiredOfLife  3 days ago

    > $17 DHL charged

    You can't do that yourself? In my EU country if I get a package with tax and customs fee I can pay myself and not pay DHL.

    Is it like the gas pump thing? Where you can't do it yourself.

  • cmurf  3 days ago

    Send a letter requesting a full refund.

    If they refuse, sue them in small claims court.

  • fuoqi  3 days ago

    Sure, if you are ready to sue the US government for that. /s

    I dunno if a class-action lawsuit is realistic or not in this case or how likely a court decision stating that all tariff revenue must be refunded.

  • SV_BubbleTime  3 days ago

    Were cat toys not made in the US? Especially if you were to factor and $18 delta?

    Sorry, but tariffs on aluminum or steel that is only made in China or microchips or components. I think that’s a valid discussion to have. … you’re complaining about disposable cat toys that were likely made in a sweat shop where the workers were not making a livable wage and then putting in a container on a ship burning crude oil and pushed around the world so you can have some junk that was a couple dollars cheaper than a domestic option?

    Not the same thing.

    • bakies  2 days ago

      If you read the whole two sentence comment it wasn't cat toys and the product doesn't matter.

leopoldj  3 days ago

"The ruling was silent on whether tariffs that have been paid under the higher rates will need to be refunded." - from CNBC

  • fuoqi  3 days ago

    This is why I mentioned "litigation" in my comment, i.e. you probably would need to separately sue the government if you want to refund the tariffs.

    • jeromegv  3 days ago

      That's not how it works.

      There is a normal process in place for importers/brokers to request refunds if a specific tariff was overpaid or a tariff was ruled to be illegal.

      But if you imported through DHL and you were not the broker, that is more complicated, you might need to ask DHL for it, and they might not want to do it for you (as they don't have a standard process in place).

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keernan  3 days ago

The tariffs were paid by the ultimate consumer. Importers that sue will have a difficult time proving actual damages.