FedEx says it'll refund tariffs to customers if it gets money back from the Trump administration
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- FedEx says it will refund customers for tariff charges if its own efforts to get a refund succeed.
- On Monday, FedEx sued the Trump administration in trade court seeking a refund.
- An exact timeline or process for refunds remains unclear after last week's Supreme Court ruling.
FedEx says it will give you a refund if you used its shipping service and paid President Donald Trump's unconstitutional tariffs — that is, if the company itself gets a refund from the government.
Days after the US Supreme Court ruled against many of Trump's tariffs, FedEx filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking a refund of the tariffs it had paid on behalf of customers.
If that effort is successful, the company said, it plans to pass that money on to the businesses and people it charged for those duties.
"Our intent is straightforward: if refunds are issued to FedEx, we will issue refunds to the shippers and consumers who originally bore those charges," FedEx said in a statement on its website.
Right now, there's no timeline or process for handling refunds, FedEx said, adding that it's waiting "on future guidance from the government and the court."
Rival UPS, which had not revealed plans to seek tariff refunds as of Friday, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
FedEx is one of many companies suing the Trump administration to recover some or all of the tariffs they paid.
Many US consumers have been hit directly by tariffs through international shipments carried by services like UPS and FedEx, Business Insider previously reported.
Some individual customers and businesses have had packages held up at customs for weeks, or tried to dispute tariff charges they say were incorrectly calculated, including at a 200% rate for Russian aluminum.
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