{"id":659,"date":"2026-05-10T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:02:05","slug":"trump-tariff-refunds-are-actually-happening-and-businesses-should-pay-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Trump tariff refunds are actually happening \u2013 and businesses should pay attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business owners may have to wade through paperwork, but the US government is now processing refunds<\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\">supreme court<\/a> struck down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/a>, many small importers assumed any refunds would be tied up in bureaucracy for years. Surprisingly, that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s estimated that roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/5847938-tariff-refunds-first-round-who-qualifies\/\">330,000 importers<\/a> paid more than $166bn in tariff fees imposed by Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). If your business was affected here\u2019s good news: you can get your tariffs refunded. You just need to be a little patient.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/10\/trump-tariff-refunds-small-business\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business owners may have to wade through paperwork, but the US government is now processing refunds When the supreme court struck down Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs, many small importers assumed any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=659\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}