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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Tariff "refunds"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Fri Feb 20 12:10:04 2026
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:53:46 -0800
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
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Tariff "refunds"
There's no way much of that tariff money can be recovered. Many
shippers for example raised their prices very significantly to cover
duty/tariff charges from their end so that recipients didn't have to
worry about them. Even if those shippers eventually see some sort of
refund of those duty/tariff payments it's very unlikely the buyers
will ever see any part of them. So U.S. buyers got screwed and are
staying screwed. -L
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