In a significant legal escalation following a landmark Supreme Court ruling, L’Oreal, Dyson, and Bausch + Lomb have filed lawsuits in the U.S. Court of International Trade seeking refunds for tariffs paid under President Trump’s emergency trade measures, per Reuters. This surge in litigation follows a Friday ruling where the U.S. Supreme Court determined in a 6-3 vote that the use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose broad tariffs was an unlawful overstep of presidential authority. These high-profile corporations join a massive wave of over 1,400 importers, including Costco, Goodyear, FedEx, and Sol de Janeiro, who are now challenging the duties to recover a portion of the estimated $175 billion in collected U.S. tariffs subject to potential refunds.
The case for the French beauty giant was specifically filed by its L'Oreal Travel Retail Americas division, which served as the importer of record for beauty products sold in duty-free and travel-related shops. While the Supreme Court has cleared the path by ruling the duties unlawful, the actual recovery process for these billions of dollars must still be settled by a lower court. Legal experts and trade lawyers caution that despite the landmark ruling, the resolution of these cases and the eventual distribution of refunds could take anywhere from several months to years to complete.
