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The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (europe.pub)
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[–] 119 points 2 months ago (10 children)

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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  • [–] 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Neat. I paid a business that forwarded the costs to me. Who do I appeal to?

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Does this mean UPS is going to stop sending me demand letters for extra money on a thing I already bought, paid for and received?

    I keep wondering if they’ll escalate, but I’m refusing on principle.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    If you already received your item(s) and you don't immediately need to do any more business with them, it sounds like they don't have a lot of leverage to get you to pay.

    Sounds like that might have been a screw up on their part.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Yes, technically the truth. In practice the vast vast majority of consumers bought from a business that imported the item. So it's good to highlight people have options, but the broad point of the post stands, that the businesses have the option of pocketing the difference and most of them seem to be taking that option.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That doesn’t matter if you paid inflated prices on already imported goods.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, the comment conveniently seems to forget that most people paid tariff costs not by directly importing something, but by simply buying the thing at a tariff inflated price in a store.

    There's no refund for those, and that is where the largest part of tariff costs has been paid.

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