The Trump administration has refunded approximately $100 billion in tariff revenue collected before the United States Supreme Court invalidated President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs.
The refund, disclosed on Tuesday in a filing before the U.S. Court of International Trade, accounts for about 60% of the estimated $166 billion generated from the broad tariffs imposed in 2025 under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
The Supreme Court struck down the tariffs in late February, ruling that the IEEPA did not grant the president authority to impose them. Roughly two weeks later, Judge Richard Eaton of the U.S. Court of International Trade ordered the government to reimburse importers for all duties collected under the law.
President Donald Trump, who made sweeping tariffs a cornerstone of his economic and foreign policy agenda, has sharply criticized the court decisions that struck down the measures. In response, his administration has moved to reinstate similar tariffs through alternative legal authorities.
“Tariffs have been incredible. We’ve taken in hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump said Tuesday in a Fox News interview. “Supreme Court gave us a little shot, but we’re allowed to do it in a different manner.”
Those replacement tariff measures are already facing separate legal challenges. Meanwhile, the administration has continued issuing refunds to importers for tariffs previously collected under the now-invalidated IEEPA regime.
In late April, U.S. Customs and Border Protection introduced the CAPE system to manage and process tariff refunds.
According to a court filing submitted on Tuesday by CBP official Brandon Lord, the CAPE system had received 252,496 refund declarations covering more than 25 million import entries as of July 31.
The filing was part of a court-ordered update detailing the administration’s progress in reimbursing importers for tariffs collected under the now-invalidated IEEPA regime.

