Amazon is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit from consumers seeking refunds over higher product prices allegedly driven by tariffs that the United States Supreme Court later ruled were unlawfully imposed by Donald Trump.

Filed Friday in a federal court in Seattle, the lawsuit claims the e-commerce giant collected hundreds of millions of dollars in unlawful tariff-related costs by increasing prices on imported goods before the high court struck down the measures, according to Reuters.

In February, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that Donald Trump exceeded his executive authority by invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose sweeping trade tariffs.

Although thousands of companies have since moved to recover billions of dollars in refunds from the federal government, the lawsuit claims that Amazon has deliberately declined to pursue its own reimbursement.

The complaint further alleges that Amazon’s decision not to seek refunds amounts to a calculated political gesture aimed at currying favor with the administration.

Unlike corporate importers, individual consumers are not legally eligible to claim tariff refunds directly from the federal government, leaving a civil lawsuit against retailers as their only potential path to recover the added costs.

To bolster claims of political motivation, the complaint cites an incident from April 2025, when media reports indicated that Amazon was considering a feature that would break out how much of a product’s listed price was attributable to the IEEPA tariffs.

The proposal reportedly drew swift backlash from the White House.