A U.S. Court of International Trade judge on Tuesday urged the Trump
administration to accelerate refunds of more than $10 billion in tariffs that
the Supreme Court later ruled illegal. Judge Richard Eaton in Manhattan said
delays in processing refund claims are producing “growing unfairness” between
large importers and smaller firms, an unintended consequence of the system set
up to return roughly $166 billion in unlawful tariffs. Eaton declined to issue a
new mandatory order, and said the administration’s appeal of a March 4 ruling
that required full refunds is delaying progress.
