Trump tariffs: Customs and Border Protection tells judge it can't comply with refund order

[Beachnutt]

CNBC
U.S. Customs and Border Protection told a Court of International Trade judge on Friday that it is not able to comply with his order to begin refunding reciprocal tariffs imposed last year by President Donald Trump, which the Supreme Court recently ruled are illegal.

CBP in the same court filing told Judge Richard Eaton that the total amount of so-called IEEPA tariffs collected as of Tuesday by the agency and estimated duty deposits related to such tariffs “is approximately $166 billion.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/trump-trade-tariffs-refunds-customs-border-protection.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. What would happen to you or me if we told a judge we would not comply with his order?

[MustLoveBeagles]

7. Yelling at us would be the least of it

[UpInArms]

2. Grifters

The whole lot of them

Thieves, robbers, looters

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Non zero chance all the money collected is in Trump's personal accounts now

It may be gone already.

[zorbasd]

8. Yup, his private bank account in Qatar,

that is.....his now bombed out bank in Qatar.

[dutch777]

4. No why is given. Time to start holding officials in criminal contempt and jailing them.

[pat_k]

5. Don't forget, they assured courts there was no need for a stay because refunds wouldn't be an issue.

Courts REALLY don't like being lied to.

And that particular lie was repeated in filing after filing... assurances that a stay was unnecessary to prevent harms because plaintiffs would be made whole if tariffs were struck down (which is actually crap because the rippling harms go beyond the dollar value, but that's another matter).

[Historic NY]

6. Give us gold bars

[LoisB]

9. Of course it can't. That money has already been divided between the *rump

family members and Vlad.