Amazon is facing a class action lawsuit filed on Friday in Seattle, accusing the company of failing to refund customers for increased product prices caused by tariffs imposed during the Trump administration. The lawsuit, first reported by Reuters, claims that Amazon profited “hundreds of millions of dollars in unlawful tariff costs.”
The suit cites a recent 6-3 US Supreme Court decision that ruled against the legality of the tariffs, allowing corporations to recover restitution for these costs. Several companies, including shipping firms, have begun receiving refunds from the US government. However, the lawsuit asserts that Amazon has not participated in this refund process and is instead trying to gain favor with Trump by allowing the government to keep 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 stated. “It has, in short, generated and retained a windfall from unlawful government action, and consumers — not Amazon — are the ones left paying for it.”
Shipping companies such as DHL, FedEx, and UPS have begun refunding affected customers as part of their own recovery process for the tariffs. In a related development, Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against the US government over the tariffs imposed on its products. Amazon has been contacted for comment regarding the lawsuit.
