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    13 days ago

    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.

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        13 days ago

        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.