Rob Bonta
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And there's a pathway to do this.
You go to the Court of International Trade if you're a business, an importer that had to pay the unlawful tariffs, and you seek a refund through what's called the refund action process.
And typically, generally, and it would be fair and just here, if your money is unlawfully withheld from you, if you had to pay something based on an unlawful tariff, you should get interest on it.
So I think you're going to see a lot of refund actions being brought against the Trump administration for these unlawful tariffs that have been struck down.
Very potentially, yes.
We had a case in the Northern District of California that now will be transferred to or commenced in the Court of International Trade, which the U.S.
Supreme Court today said is the appropriate court, and that's where we could seek a refund action for California, for the state of California, not the businesses who paid the
the unlawful tariffs.
So, to the extent that California has been hurt by these tariffs, had to pay higher prices because of these tariffs, yes, we could pursue a refund action in the Court of International Trade.
And we're discussing all of our options now.
I think he'll try again.
Some of his statements today were very remarkable, almost claiming victory in the face of very clear defeat.
This is an embarrassing loss in front of the US Supreme Court on his key policy proposal of his administration.
It was unlawful and it was not even close.
It was clearly unlawful, a 6-3 loss in front of the US Supreme Court.
He very may well try to implement other tariffs through other pathways.
Those are always available to him.
To be clear, there's prerequisites for those tariffs to be implemented.
There's limits on those tariffs.
There's limits in duration and amount.