The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.

The wholesaler is the latest company to file a lawsuit against a federal agency over the president’s signature economic policy.

Costco Wholesale has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, asking the Court of International Trade to consider all tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act unlawful.

The company said in a Nov. 28 filing that it is seeking a “full refund” of all IEEPA duties paid as a result of Donald Trump’s executive order which imposed what he called “reciprocal” tariffs.

“Because IEEPA does not clearly authorize the President to set tariffs…the Challenged Tariff Orders cannot stand and the defendants are not authorized to implement and collect them,” Costco’s lawyer writes in the lawsuit.

Global cosmetics giant Revlon, eyeglass maker EssilorLuxottica, motorcycle manufacturer Kawasaki, canned foods seller Bumble Bee, Japanese auto supplier Yokohama Tire and many smaller firms have also filed similar suits

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    61·
    17 hours ago

    There’s a difference between lamenting the reality of honoring a quote after things change and wishing you didn’t need to. They’re saying they wish the government would pay them back for the tariff, not that they wish they could’ve passed it on to the customer.

    • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
      15·
      17 hours ago

      So they want the government to fix a regular issue with quoted work…? The price is expected to change, that’s why you quote to begin with…. It’s likely they don’t even know how their system works.

      That’s even worse lmfao.

      It’s quoted work, it’s volatile already, and the customers game it if they know the material goods in going down. Don’t like it? Don’t quote work. It’s not even a relevant detail to their gripe, just bitching for the sake of bitching at this point.

      The price would be different with or without tariffs, but complain without realizing how the system works I guess.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        61·
        17 hours ago

        Going through my past three days of comments and down voting them all doesn’t help your argument.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        31·
        17 hours ago

        They aren’t just saying “wahhh government, pwease pay the difference of this quote” they’re specifically replying to a thread about a company suing the government for tariff reimbursements and talking about a tariff making the price go up after the quote.

        • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
          13·
          17 hours ago

          Did you miss the detail about the VENDOR increasing price? Their build cost went up, not the price. This would happened irregardless of tariffs, and is expected.

          I guess if you ignore details they specify, you could take that from their comment.

          But again, person is just bitching for the sake of bitching, the provided details show they either don’t understand how the system work, or just bitching.

          They want to applauded for doing what they agreed to, it’s bloody laughable. As a small business owner myself it’s attitudes like this that make the rest look bad.

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
            41·
            17 hours ago

            As a small business owner myself it’s attitudes like this that make the rest look bad.

            After going through three days of my comments to down vote them all, you don’t need help making yourself look bad. You handled that quite well yourself.

            • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
              16·
              16 hours ago

              Ah yes, downvote a couple stupid comments you’ve made and suddenly I went through “days”.

              How petty and sad is it that you even went and looked lol?