June 11, 2026
Tariff & International Trade Resource
What Every Multinational Should Know About … the Government’s Appeal of Judge Eaton’s Universal IEEPA Tariff Refunds Order (and Why It Is Claiming It Can Keep Billions of Dollars of Unlawfully Collected IEEPA Tariffs)
For several months, the U.S. government has been signaling an impending challenge of the Court of International Trade’s (CIT) authority to require refunds of IEEPA tariff payments (i.e., payment refunds for tariffs enacted pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act) for entries liquidated more than 80 days earlier.