Until July 10, the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processed the return of $121.75 billion dollars to companies that paid the tariffs imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump and that were subsequently invalidated by the Supreme Court. The figure represents more than 70% of the approximately $166 billion that the government must refund to affected importers.

CBP confirmed that the agency received $24.4 million of import declarations, of which $16.76 million have already been processed to determine their eligibility for a refund or certified return.

“CBP has fully complied with all decisions of the International Trade Court and other courts regarding refunds under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA),” the agency spokesperson stated.

The refund corresponds to tariffs that the Trump administration applied in April 2025 through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a 1977 legislation that was traditionally used to respond to extraordinary threats to national security, but that the government used to impose widespread levies on dozens of trading partners.

In February of this year, the United States Supreme Court concluded that this law did not grant the president the power to establish tariffs unilaterally and declared that tax scheme illegal. The resolution forced the suspension of the collection of these taxes and opened the process to return the money collected to hundreds of thousands of importers.

To execute refunds, CBP enabled the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries (CAPE) electronic platform in April, through which importers or their customs agents submit applications. Each case then goes through an individual review before payment is authorized.

The volume of resources turned the procedure into one of the largest refund operations in the history of US customs. According to court documents, around 330,000 importers could benefit from the program, which covers around 53 million import operations carried out between April 2025 and February 2026.

A day after CAPE went live, Trump publicly recommended that companies not request the money back, believing that forgoing the refund was a better decision to support their business strategy.

However, after the judicial defeat, the White House sought to maintain its tariff policy through new legal bases. It first established a temporary 10% global tariff, which expired at the end of July. He later announced new taxes of between 10% and 12.5% ​​on products from some 60 economies, arguing that those countries made “insufficient efforts to combat forced labor.” This new strategy is already facing lawsuits promoted by more than twenty states, whose prosecutors maintain that the government is trying to restore through another means the taxes that the courts have already declared illegal.

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