Amazon has started telling customers what comes next on tariff refunds. After the company collected about $600 million from the U.S. government, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that threw out Trump-era tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, some customers will get automatic repayments.
But Amazon is drawing that group pretty narrowly. It says refunds will go only to a limited set of specifically identifiable customers, and it still hasn’t said which orders qualify, how many people are affected, how much any one customer might get, or when those payments will actually go out.
And not all of that money is coming back as cash. Amazon says part of it will instead be used to “invest in low prices.”
The company also says the full $600 million isn’t a direct measure of what shoppers paid. Amazon says it absorbed much of the tariff cost itself, brought in inventory before the tariffs took effect, and doesn’t import most marketplace goods on its own. More than 60% of products sold on Amazon come from third-party sellers, the company says, and those sellers were often the importers of record.
If you shop on Amazon a lot, keep an eye on this. A proposed class action says Amazon passed those costs on to customers and is now holding on to too much of the refund. Similar repayments are also starting to spread across an estimated $166 billion collected from U.S. businesses, including Walmart and Costco.
You don’t need to download anything or take any action right now, but Amazon’s refund process is still vague.
Author: Julianne Omamos
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