Lydia Wheeler
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111 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Jun
Lydia Wheeler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they're frustrated because they're saying, hey, customs already has a system that's kept track of all of this.
Like, how come they can't just do it themselves?
Trade lawyers are definitely making that argument.
They're saying, like, why should companies be the one to have to do their own accounting when customs has that ability to do it themselves?
So we are already seeing consumers going to court, to other federal courts, and suing companies to say, once you get a refund, we want you to pass that money back to me.
Places like Costco are being sued, and they are facing class actions right now or potential class actions from consumers that are saying, hey, I paid a higher price in the store, and Costco, you said if you get a refund from the government that you will make us whole.
Well, we want to hold your feet to the fire on that.
And then separately, President Trump said, OK, well, I'm going to come in and set new tariffs in place under a different legal justification and different legal authority.
And so now you have new lawsuits challenging those new tariffs.
So while we're still all trying to figure out what's owed from the other ones, we have litigation that's beginning over the new tariffs that Trump put in place right after the Supreme Court's ruling.
Yeah, there's a lot of litigation, right?
Some trade lawyers are saying that, that absolutely, that they appreciate what Judge Eaton has done, but this is messy.
And the process that the government has already mapped out looks cumbersome.
And they're worried that some companies are just either not going to do it correctly or that it's going to be too burdensome for some companies to do it on their own and that they won't have any other resources to try to get claims.
Definitely not.
Some business owners that we spoke to said, I couldn't grow, I couldn't hire more staff, which I would have been able to had it not been for this.
There are others who are now in debt.
They had to open lines of credit that had gone dormant.
One company I chatted with, the business owner said, I had to go back to the bank and not only reinstate my line of credit, but then ask for an increase in the amount that I was given because I have to pay these tariffs upfront when my product comes into port.
And I just didn't have the cash flow to do that.
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