Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs
The Trump administration has begun accepting applications from businesses seeking refunds for more than $166bn in tariffs, months after the supreme court ruled that the president had no legal authority to impose them.
The administration launched on Monday the digital claims system, named Cape, which they said in court filings could handle about 63% of affected import filings, with the remainder to follow.
Writing for the majority in February, Chief Justice John Roberts said the 1977 emergency statute Trump had invoked provided no such sweeping authority to implement the tariffs. Two of the president’s own appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, joined the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh were the dissenters.
Bet this works as well as the PPP Covid payments did. No oversight, lots of big businesses that weren’t really eligible draining the funds before real small businesses got anything, and no accountability.
Too bad the people who really paid these tariffs won’t get a penny back