Supreme Court News Updates

The 10% Section 122 tariffs, which replaced the IEEPA tariffs that the Supreme Court dismissed, are scheduled to expire July 24.

The Trump administration said it’s making progress on building a web-based portal to handle refund requests for almost $170 billion in global tariffs that were overturned by the Supreme Court.

The administration has rushed to construct a new tariff regime after the Supreme Court ruled that the president violated the Constitution by imposing many of his previous duties using an emergency law. 

Among the issues that will be investigated are taxes on digital services and alleged currency manipulation, according to the New York Times, which first reported the plans.

The Democratic attorneys general and governors in the lawsuit argue that Trump is overstepping his power with planned 15% tariffs on much of the world.

The justices were silent on the refund question, leaving questions of payback to the New York-based U.S. Court of International Trade. No one expects a speedy resolution.

The majority of five conservative justices said the federal law that generally shields USPS from lawsuits over missing, lost and undelivered mail includes “the intentional nondelivery of mail.”

FedEx said in a filing that it has suffered injury from having to pay the tariffs and that the relief it's seeking from the court would redress those injuries.

Among the major questions left unanswered for US importers are the prospects and the process for recouping the money the government collected over the past year under IEEPA.

The court is preparing to begin a four-week recess, and under its usual procedures for releasing opinions, the next potential day for a tariff decision is Feb. 20.