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The U.S. government had already refunded about $100 billion in tariffs by the end of July. But there is a much harder question behind that number: who actually gets the tariff refund when businesses and consumers may have already carried part of the cost? The government can return the money to the importer that legally paid the tariff at the border. What it cannot easily reconstruct is what happened afterward — whether the company absorbed the cost, pushed part of it onto suppliers, or passed some of it forward through higher prices. In this video, we follow that money through Amazon, Nike, Costco and FedEx. Amazon has already received about $600 million in tariff refunds. Nike says it paid roughly $1 billion in tariffs now at the center of the refund dispute. Costco customers have gone to court over allegations that some tariff costs had already been reflected in the prices they paid. FedEx, meanwhile, created a dedicated tariff-refund portal that can pass certain traceable refunds back to eligible customers. The deeper issue is what economists call the difference between who legally pays a tax and who economically bears it. Research discussed in the video found that across 2025, close to 90% of the tariff burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers combined rather than foreign exporters. That creates the question behind the lawsuits: if a business passed part of a tariff cost to customers and later receives the tariff refund, can keeping both amounts become a form of double recovery? The problem has a historical precedent. In the 1930s, after a tax was struck down after some businesses had already passed its cost forward, Congress restricted refunds and created an 80% tax on unjust enrichment in certain cases. But today's economy is very different. Global supply chains, online marketplaces, third-party sellers and hundreds of millions of individual purchases can make it almost impossible to connect one customs payment with the shopper who ultimately carried part of that cost. So this is not simply a story about $100 billion being returned. It is about a much harder economic question: When a tax is reversed after its cost has already moved through an economy, can the money ever be traced back to the person who truly paid it? Topics covered in this video include U.S. tariff refunds, the Supreme Court tariff ruling, Amazon tariff refunds, Nike tariffs, Costco tariff lawsuits, FedEx tariff refunds, double recovery, tariff pass-through, importer of record, tax incidence, consumer prices, global supply chains and the history of unjust-enrichment taxes. 00:00 The $100 Billion Tariff Refund 01:22 Why the Refunds Started 02:41 How Tariff Costs Move 03:44 Who Legally Pays vs. Who Really Pays 04:31 Costco and the Double-Recovery Question 05:03 Nike’s $1 Billion Tariff Dispute 05:38 Amazon’s $600 Million Refund 06:37 Why FedEx Is Different 07:05 Is a Tariff Refund a Windfall? 07:47 America Faced This Problem Before 08:13 The 80% Unjust Enrichment Tax 08:47 Why the Old Solution Breaks Today 09:21 So Who Gets the Money? 10:21 Can the Cost Ever Be Traced Back? #TariffRefunds #Tariffs #Economics #USTrade #HistoryOfMoney

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