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Well the companies paid the tarrifs, not the consumers.
Incorrect. There was a famous trendy video of an individual who was told to receive their package they had to pay UPS at drop off for the fees from the tariffs. The delivery driver even understood people weren’t happy.
They still weren’t paying the tarrifs though, they were reimbursing them. If they were truly paying them they would have paid the government not UPS.
So anyways, as I said, consumers and corporations paid the tariffs. It all depends on how it was purchased.
If you paid FedEx or UPS then you did not pay the tarrifs directly. They paid the terrifs, you reimbursed them. So they will get them back. It’s seeming like a lot of people who reimbursed companies for tarrifs think they actually directly paid terrifs themselves.
You said there is no instance that a consumer paid tariffs. FedEx and UPS are the ones who ship what you paid for, yes.
If YOU personally order something internationally and it is subject to applicable duties, when it arrives at customs, customs/carrier procedures can require you to pay the import duty before receiving the package, or it will remain in their custody until YOU pay the dues.
So, anyways, as I have said, it is not JUST corporations who paid the tariffs.
Right, but who did you pay it to? If you paid Customs directly, you paid the terrifs, of you paid UPS they paid they tarrif and you just reimbursed them. There’s an important difference.
There is no important difference. You just acknowledged that depending on who you paid, depends on if you paid the tariffs. I like that your goal post has wheels so you can keep moving it.
If you, as a consumer, directly paid one of the illegal tariffs, you can get a refund via the shipper who acted as an agent for you.
For example, here’s the form if you shipped something over the border using UPS and paid an illegal tariff to get it released from customs.
Neat. I paid a business that forwarded the costs to me. Who do I appeal to?
Depends probably on the nature of what “forwarded the costs” means.
If the business collected the costs from you and then forwarded them to CBP while acting as your agent, then you can demand a refund from them or sue them.
If you agreed to purchase goods for one price while also agreeing to pay a separate “tariff reimbursement fee” in exchange for purchasing the goods, you’re probably shit out of luck.
Various shades in between might be arguable or litigatable one way or another.
Do Amazon receipts have “extra tariff fee” as a line item?
no, the prices are technically unrelated to tariffs.