U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Trump Administration's Request to Delay Tariff Refunds

Odaily News According to an earlier ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, the majority of the tariff measures implemented by the administration of former President Donald Trump were invalid. The Department of Justice subsequently filed an appeal with a federal appeals court, requesting an additional 90-day grace period to provide the executive and legislative branches with time to consider options, amounting to a maximum delay of approximately four months. However, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected this request from the Department of Justice, meaning subsequent steps in the tariff refund process can proceed swiftly. This ruling by the federal appeals court clears the way for the lower court, the U.S. Court of International Trade, to initiate legal proceedings related to tariff refunds. According to estimates from Department of Justice lawyers, the refund process could take several years to complete. Following the Supreme Court's ruling, tariff refund lawsuits filed by hundreds of additional companies have brought the total number of tariff-related cases facing the Trump administration to over 2,000.