The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023.
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Eaton on Wednesday ordered CPB to calculate the cost of bringing in shipments into the United States without assessing a tariff, and told the agency to make refunds to importers who had paid the IEEPA tariffs, with interest.
“Customs knows how to do this,” Eaton said during a court hearing on Wednesday. “They do it every day. They liquidate entries and make refunds.”
Many importers have sued the Trump administration seeking refunds of tariffs they have paid since last year that were deemed illegal.
Eaton’s order on the refunds was issued in a lawsuit filed by one of those importers, Atmus Filtration, but it applies to every duty that was paid in connection with the IEEPA tariffs.
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