April 29 (UPI) -- The government portal for submitting tariff refund claims has been open for about a week after some importers were unsure it would ever happen.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in February that tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were illegal but the court did not offer direction about what should happen with the duties that were collected.
The Court of International Trade weighed in last month, ordering U.S. Customs and Border Protection to refund revenue that was unlawfully collected under IEEPA.
"With respect to any and all unliquidated entries that were entered subject to IEEPA duties, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is hereby directed to liquidate those entries without regard to the IEEPA duties," the court ordered in the case Learning Resources, Inc. vs. Trump.
"Any liquidated entries for which liquidation is not final shall be liquidated without regard to those duties. Any liquidated entries for which liquidation is final shall be reliquidated without regard to the IEEPA duties."
