{"id":68486,"date":"2026-03-09T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/small-business-owners-doubt-theyll-see-refunds-after-supreme-court-invalidates-trumps-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:55:00","slug":"small-business-owners-doubt-theyll-see-refunds-after-supreme-court-invalidates-trumps-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/small-business-owners-doubt-theyll-see-refunds-after-supreme-court-invalidates-trumps-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Small business owners doubt they\u2019ll see refunds after supreme court invalidates Trump\u2019s tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling could free $175bn, but legal hurdles and higher costs have left businesses questioning if claims are even worth it<\/p>\n<p>The US supreme court recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/trump-supreme-court-tariffs-ruling\">struck down<\/a> Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs, opening the door to up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/28\/trump-tariffs-refunds-law-firms\">$175bn<\/a> in refunds for businesses that paid the import taxes. However, the process for claiming that money is by no means certain. Trump himself said that the issue could be tied up in courts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/retailers-trump-tariffs-refunds\">\u201cfor the next five years\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Across the country, small businesses have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/26\/trumps-tariffs-hurt-families-and-small-businesses-the-most\">struggled to navigate the fallout <\/a>from Trump\u2019s global tariff wars. The Guardian asked small business owners in the US how their lives and livelihoods have been affected.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/09\/small-businesses-trump-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling could free $175bn, but legal hurdles and higher costs have left businesses questioning if claims are even worth it The US supreme court recently struck down Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs, opening the door to up to $175bn in refunds for businesses that paid the import taxes. However, the process for claiming that money is by &#8230; <a title=\"Small business owners doubt they\u2019ll see refunds after supreme court invalidates Trump\u2019s tariffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/small-business-owners-doubt-theyll-see-refunds-after-supreme-court-invalidates-trumps-tariffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Small business owners doubt they\u2019ll see refunds after supreme court invalidates Trump\u2019s tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}