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President Donald Trump talks to journalists after the Air Force, Maryland, retreated on September 7, 2025.
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A US government Already raised tens of billion dollars from the president Donald Trump ‘S “mutual tariffs”.
But that money – and much more – can end turned If the Supreme Court agrees to the lower courts that many of the assemblies in imports from other countries are illegal.
How much can it end?
Anywhere between $ 750 billion to a colossal 1 trillion. Dollars, warned the Minister of the Treasury Scott Bet In the declaration filed with the Supreme Court last week.
This total eye number may include over $ 72 billion Assembled income tariffs So far, the US border and customs fulfillment after Trump’s announcement “Liberation Day”, according to August 24.
It will also include money that will be raised from the risk tariffs until next June.
“Disabling them can lead to significant violations,” the Supreme Court said.
The Declaration of the Impsum was part of the request of the Trump administration, so that the Supreme Court quickly ruled that the tariffs are legitimate and not expected until next summer, the usual terms for such a decision.
The sooner the rules are the court, the less money the government may need if most judges count tariffs illegal.
Refund tariffs are not an unprecedented situation for the US government. But the number of tariffs that the Trump administration may be forced to return the return.
Under a former president Joe BidenImporters of some Chinese goods have provided a refund in section 301 tariffs for a limited period, according to Holland & Knight 2022 prevent. But the money was relatively miserable.
Insent said he was “convinced” that the Trump administration would force the Supreme Court to change the lower court rulings.
But if the Supreme Court says the return is required, “we have to do it,” said the infant NBC NEWS“” Meet the press “on Sunday. And it would be” scary “, he added.
Two lower courts ruled Trump exceeded his presidential authorities when he addressed Law on International Emergency Economic Powers To justify the imposing steep levies of virtually every American trading partner.
Last week, Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to quickly cancel these decisions.
“The rates in this case cannot be higher,” wrote General Lawyer D. John Seru in the administration’s petition to the Supreme Court. “For the president and his oldest advisers, these tariffs are a vivid choice: with the tariffs we are rich in the nation; without tariffs, we are a poor nation,” the Sea.
“The president predicts that if” the United States was forced to return the trillion dollars committed by us, America can move from strength to refusal at the moment when such a wrong decision came into force, “and” economic consequences would be devastating rather than unprecedented success. “
The Supreme Court did not indicate if it could act at the request of the Trump administration to take the case.
But the fact that the Trump administration did not expect by mid-October to ask the Supreme Court to take the case, “at least increasing the chances that we could see the Supreme Court by the end of the year,” said Ryan Mayer, an international trade partner in King & Spalding.
The main questions remain over how the return process will work for the administration, and the companies are most affected by the tariffs
Majerus said it was possible that importers may need to apply for a refund.
On August 7, 2025, freight containers are stacked on the ship on the international jakarta International terminal in Tanjung Prok Port.
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Trade experts are already calling on companies to keep thorough records and are preparing to submit refund requirements, warning that the process may be dirty.
“Documenting the history of import and submission of the necessary documents that will be key immediately,” said the recent customer warning from Braunstein Hayat Farbera Shrek.
When brokers are obliged to fall for their money, “the load for our customs teams will double the night and meet with importers who are very eager to return these dollars”, Mike Short, President of Global forwarding in Ch Robinson, Recently said CNBC.
The New York Times’ Dealbook budget It is reported that some importers are referring to the sale of their rights to potential returns to third firms to a dope.
Buyers of these rights are effectively betting that the Supreme Court will cancel Trump’s tariffs and give them a great return from these conclusions.
The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.