(The Center Square) – Six senators want to know if the Trump administration has any plan to get tariff refunds to consumers with the government having cleared about $122 billion in refunds of struck-down duties for importers.
In a letter dated Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and five colleagues asked U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer whether the administration has estimated what consumers paid in higher prices under the tariffs the Supreme Court struck down in February, and under each of the three tariffs that replaced them. They asked Greer to respond by Oct. 5.
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