It doesn’t matter until someone hears the dog whistles and decides to launch investigations into some/all of the justices. “You’re going to find out”, at least IMHO, sounds like Trump telling his lackeys to dig up some dirt on them.
One of my pet Trump cultist’s favourite expressions.
Sometimes a nation- cough china cough- will sell an item below cost just to hurt the us Market for that products.
No, those are simply banned.
We’ll never know. Each little bit might perhaps contribute to something happening someday. I’m not holding my breath, but I do think we all have a responsibility to use whatever platform we have to speak out when we can.
Fedex wants their money back.
The WTO under the GATT (Article 6) is the prevailing international authority where dumping inquiries are held. If the allegation is shown to meet the strict definitions then specific dumping duties (note not tariffs) are allowed and are typically punitive.
Any US manufacturer whose market was being disrupted by dumping from any origin would be seeking relief and hence be all over this like seagulls over chips.
If they are not, then they are simply preaching to the home crowd.
And hoping the home crowd don’t realise they are being ripped off.
Mike Johnson says Congress isn’t going to bail Trump out on tariffs.
That was behind a pay wall for me. And my question was — why would FedEx be paying the tariffs? But the New York Times article I could get to seems to explain it:
I’m pessimistic about international laws like this being able to keep up with Trump. He’ll promise to increase tariffs if our trading partners go there. While Trump chickens out on a lot of his threats, other nations have to be concerned that he doesn’t always do so.
Maybe they’ll wise up and stop negotiating with the U.S. because we violated prior agreements. But I don’t think many U.S. trading partners will dare.
I am not surprised, considering that the House voted to overturn the tariffs on Canada two weeks ago. With the mid-terms coming up, I don’t think that many GOP congress members want to be on the record as voting to raise prices right now.
“I got a feeling the American people won’t see it,” Bessent predicted.
Iago (again)- "Oh, there’s a big surprise! That’s an incredib… I think I’m gonna have a heart attack and die from that surprise! "
From an opinion piece in today’s Washington Post by Neil Katyal (the atty who won the tariff case):
There’s much more in the actual piece (gift link).
https://wapo.st/4rATdxx
If Bessent isn’t the textbook face of “fatcat”, I’ll eat my hat. Yet the diehard MAGAheads are pumping fists at this turn of events.
This is especially important because, earlier in the case, one of the trial courts chose not to issue an injunction based on the government saying that, if the tariffs turn out to be illegal, they’ll return the money, no big deal. Judicial estoppel should prevent them being able to say ‘actually, it turns out it’s super complicated to return all that money, so we’re just gonna keep it.’. Briefly explained in this (cued up) Legal Eagle video about the tariffs getting struck down.
That’s not a feeling. It is an unassailable fact that the tariffs were mostly passed on to consumers who will get nothing.
This op-ed writing lawyer is trying to get businesses, which passed on the tariffs to customers, a mostly undeserved windfall.
Most Americans occasionally get a post card concerning a class action where they could claim a few dollars because of a business misdeed. This was a legitimate situation for that. Every American adult should get an identical check signed by the six concurring Supreme Court justices for the estimated average tariff impact. Instead the fat cats get the money.
Their customers have a chance at a refund, given that their tariff payment was almost certainly listed discretely on an invoice.
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This op-ed writing lawyer is trying to get businesses, which passed on the tariffs to customers, a mostly undeserved windfall.
From the opinion piece (and again, this is the lawyer who argued the case before the Supreme Court:
(bolding mine)
It does suck. And there are huge additional costs for the businesses in addition to the actual tariffs. The plaintiff in the case had to borrow $10 million from the bank to pay the additional $10m in tariffs, at bank interest rates far higher than what they’ll recover. They also incurred massive costs moving supply chains and tooling to new countries, only to have tariffs then placed on those countries. They had to eat a lot of costs that they’ll never recoup so that the prices they sold their products at weren’t astronomical.
From Reuters:
Josh Ketter, CEO of Lincoln, Nebraska-based Spreetail, which sells Razor scooters, Sterilite boxes and above-ground pools on Amazon.com, said the company has “no planned price changes.”
“If we ever get refunds, it will only partially make up for the losses this past year,” said Ketter, whose company paid about $50 million in tariffs in 2025. Ketter is bracing for the refund process to take a couple of years, but hopes it will be shorter.
Yet trump insists that foreign countries pay tariffs, not us. And trump’s idiot supporters believe that. If that were so, why are businesses suing for refunds?
Really, China should filename lawsuit just to show that they don’t have standing.
The ‘Buck Stops Here’ takes on a whole new meaning with this administration.