Several brands are seeking damages from Trump over the tariff issue The complaints were filed earlier this week with the US International Trade Court
For the first time since the beginning of the odyssey of tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, a significant portion of the corporate world has decided to go on the offensive. Following last week’s ruling by the US Supreme Court, which declared the tariff regime imposed in 2025 unlawful, several brands and multinational giants have launched legal actions to seek reimbursement for the sums paid. According to Reuters, the latest companies to file lawsuits include L’Oréal, Dyson and Bausch + Lomb, FedEx, and Sol de Janeiro, adding to an already lengthy list.
Brands seek compensation over tariffs
@washingtonpost The Supreme Court struck down most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs in a 6-3 ruling on Friday. The court said Trump didn’t have authority under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to put tariffs on goods from nearly all of the U.S. trading partners. Trump said he would replace the import taxes the court overturned with a 10 percent global tariff using different trade laws than the one the court ruled on. At a White House news conference, he called the justices who sided against him a “disgrace to our nation.”
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The lawsuits were filed on Monday with the United States Court of International Trade, just days after the Supreme Court’s decision, which ruled by a 6–3 majority that Donald Trump had overstepped his authority in imposing tariffs on imports. Court documents cited by Reuters already refer to more than 1,400 importers involved, including retail giants such as Costco and manufacturing companies like Goodyear, with trade lawyers predicting a new wave of lawsuits in the coming weeks.
The main issue remains the economic scale of the matter: again according to Reuters, economists at the Penn Wharton Budget Model estimate that up to $175 billion in tariffs collected by the United States could potentially be refunded. A staggering figure, which highlights how slow the recovery mechanism for these sums is likely to be, still to be defined by lower courts – with timelines that could stretch on for months, if not years.
Trump and the White House remain silent
Nobody is interested in the lies Donald Trump is telling about his tariffs.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 25, 2026
Americans just want their money back.
Looking more closely at the individual legal actions, L’Oréal’s lawsuit was filed by its L’Oréal Travel Retail Americas division, which manages the sale of beauty products in duty-free stores and across travel-related channels. In the filings, as well as those submitted by Dyson, Bausch + Lomb, and Sol de Janeiro, the companies stress that they acted as importers of record for goods subject to tariffs imposed under the IEEPA (International Emergency Economic Powers Act), the US law that had authorized the President during Liberation Day to set rules on international trade.
As in other similar cases, the lawsuits do not target Trump alone, but also name U.S. Customs and Border Protection, its commissioner Rodney Scott, and the United States of America as defendants. For now, however, neither the White House nor the customs agency has issued official comments. At the same time, on Monday morning a group of 22 Democratic senators pushed forward legislation to fully reimburse, including interest, revenues affected by the tariffs. Will there be a solution to the latest whim of the 47th President of the United States?
