Amazon class – Amazon has been named in a class action lawsuit filed in Seattle accusing the company of keeping tariff-linked charges from customers after a US Supreme Court ruling against the legality of the Trump administration’s tariffs.
Amazon’s customer service may not be the place shoppers can expect answers this time. The online retail giant has been hit with a class action lawsuit after customers alleged they were never refunded for higher prices tied to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.
The case was filed on Friday in Seattle.. It targets Amazon for what the complaint calls profiting “hundreds of millions of dollars in unlawful tariff costs.” At the center of the dispute is a US Supreme Court decision issued by a 6-3 vote. which ruled against the legality of the sweeping tariff policy put in place by President Trump.
The lawsuit argues that Amazon should be able to recoup those tariff costs because corporations were allowed to recover restitution following the Supreme Court ruling.. Some companies have already confirmed that they began receiving money back from the US government.. But the complaint says Amazon hasn’t joined that effort. accusing the company of trying “to curry favor with Trump by allowing the federal government to retain the funds.”
“Amazon has not returned any portion of those costs it passed on to consumers, and it has no intention of doing so,” the lawsuit states. It adds that Amazon has “generated and retained a windfall from unlawful government action,” and that “consumers — not Amazon — are the ones left paying for it.”
A different picture is emerging elsewhere.. Shipping companies including DHL. FedEx and UPS said they started the refund process and plan to pass the proceeds on to affected customers.. Another example is Nintendo. which filed a lawsuit against the US government after having to pay the imposed tariffs to bring its products into the country.
The sequence of events in the filing lines up tightly with the Supreme Court timeline described by the complaint: the tariff policy was struck down in a 6-3 ruling. corporations were permitted to seek restitution. some companies say they received money back. and this case claims Amazon is the one company still withholding refunds from customers.
MISRYOUM contacted Amazon for comment on the lawsuit and will update the story if the company responds.
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