As usual all I can think of is…
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If that’s what I can expect in a reply from you I just won’t bother to click on your notification. 
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The idea of the government refunding tariffs to individual citizens is ridiculous. The most that can be hoped for is a govt. mass rebate that Trump was discussing before the SCOTUS decision . Of course this will come from the treasury and since they’re (us) are broke it would have to be borrowed.
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This is right, and right at the heart of it.
I met Victor O Schwarz once, 2+ decades back. On brief acquaintance, a good guy, works hard, knows his wines.
I don’t know the scale of his current business, but I doubt that he paid as much as $1 million in tariffs. But if he paid $250,000, that was right out of his pocket and a LOT of money for him.
Did his suppliers help? Probably, and I’d like to think so.
Did his distributors cut their margins by a hair? Probably not, but I’d like to think so.
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I got an email from ideal that tariffs for shipping are only 10% for the moment
I took the “win”
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That is correct. The 15% was not implemented…yet.
So does ideal charge you 10% tariff payment before shipping and then it arrives problem free at your address in the US? Or is there an additional payment procedure once it leaves their premises? (Language on their website is ambiguous on this front)
They say they take care of it but this is my first delivery post tariff
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My point is that the general public doesn’t really care about small wine importers. From our point of view it’s important, but I don’t see the political will for them to get their moneys back.
Agree 100%
If some businesses get refunds (e.g., FedEx) that opens the door.
If foreign countries—not the US—paid the outlawed tariffs, should the refunds go to them?
I guess some foreign businesses did “pay” a little by lowering their prices at the request of importers. Am I wrong?
What
It’s quite a good point. Msr. Trump has been so insistent that the tariffs are being paid by foreign countries. Therefore, he should be held to his own logic.
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Indeed!
I’d like to witness the olympic games of mental gymnastics in which this kind of scenario would be worked out.
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By the way, in those cases where the exporting company and the U.S. importer “split” the tariff, there is a possibility that it could be construed as falsifying the valuation of the products. Maybe not, but…
I would assume whoever wrote the check gets the money back… in the unlikely event that ever happens.
After all, it’s only the Supreme Court who said that, and aren’t they trumped by the Maximum Leader?
But you can be sure FedEx has a record of who it passed on the tariffs to, so it shouldn’t be too hard for them to refund those. I would imagine the same would be true with large wine importers who passed the cost along as a surcharge on their invoices.
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