{"id":800408,"date":"2026-07-14T02:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800408\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:44:09","slug":"us-refunds-81bn-in-trump-tariffs-after-supreme-court-ruled-them-illegal-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800408\/","title":{"rendered":"US refunds $81bn in Trump tariffs after supreme court ruled them illegal | Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US government has already paid back tens of billions of dollars in tariffs it collected before the supreme court ruled them illegal, according to budget figures released on Monday.<\/p>\n

Tariffs <\/a>\u2013 taxes on imported goods \u2013 have been a key part of president Donald Trump\u2019s game economic plan since he took office again last year.<\/p>\n

But in February, the supreme court shut down<\/a> a big chunk of the extra tariffs Trump ordered, forcing the government to return money to the companies that had paid them.<\/p>\n

According to the budget data, the US has paid out $81bn in tariff refunds so far this fiscal year, which started in October 2025, compared to just $5bn during the same stretch last year.<\/p>\n

A Treasury department official told reporters that the spike is almost entirely because of the supreme court decision, with most of the refunds happening in May and June.<\/p>\n

Trump had pitched the tariffs as a catch-all fix for the economy \u2013 bringing factories back to America, getting better trade deals and closing the deficit in the federal budget.<\/p>\n

But the deficit, which had actually gotten a little smaller last year thanks to the tariff income, is now growing again.<\/p>\n

It hit $1.367tn in the first nine months of the fiscal year, up 2%.<\/p>\n

The US also spent over $1tn just on paying interest on its debt, up 14%, and military spending climbed 5% because of the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The administration\u2019s current temporary 10% global tariff is due to expire on 24 July but the White House is preparing new duties over what it sees as lax enforcement of anti-forced labor laws and excess industrial capacity.<\/p>\n

With Agence France-Presse and Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US government has already paid back tens of billions of dollars in tariffs it collected before the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-800408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}