2026-02-27 / CBS新闻
当美国一些最大的公司起诉特朗普政府以获取关税退款时，一家小公司已经在向消费者返还资金。
性健康与保健公司Dame Products的首席执行官亚历山德拉·法恩（Alexandra Fine）表示，她正在为消费者因特朗普总统去年根据《国际紧急经济权力法》（IEEPA）征收的进口关税而产生的费用提供自动退款。最高法院上周裁定紧急关税非法。
“我们把那笔钱还给民众，因为如果有人向你收取费用但这是非法的，他们就应该把钱还给你，”她告诉CBS新闻。
Dame去年对客户购买的产品实施了5美元的特朗普关税附加费，2025年共支付了7万美元的IEEPA关税。法恩还表示，她希望联邦政府以及其他企业也能效仿，向客户提供关税退款。
“只需点击一个按钮”
“我们掌握所有信息。我们可以看到每一位被收取了附加费的客户，所以我们只需点击一个按钮就把钱还给他们，”2014年共同创立Dame的法恩告诉CBS新闻。
性健康公司Dame的创始人兼首席执行官亚历山德拉·法恩表示，她正在向客户偿还其购买商品的关税成本。Aurielle Sayeh
根据纽约联邦储备银行最近的一项研究，消费者和企业去年以更高成本的形式支付了美国近90%的关税，尽管其他分析发现对购物者的“转嫁”率稍低。
声称外国政府和出口商承担了大部分关税成本的特朗普政府，强烈质疑纽约联邦储备银行的调查结果。
根据专注于公共政策分析的无党派研究机构宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院预算模型，企业在2025年和2026年初支付的IEEPA关税中，可能有高达1650亿美元的退款。
在特朗普宣布对数十个美国贸易伙伴征收关税后，法恩于2025年4月推出了公司的关税附加费。Dame制造产品的中国关税最终定为20%。
如今，在特朗普回应最高法院关于其使用IEEPA的裁决的反对意见后，上周援引另一项贸易法对美国进口产品征收临时全面关税，Dame现在面临来自中国进口产品15%的关税。
法恩表示，Dame去年共支付了约10万美元的关税，其中约7万美元来自IEEPA关税。她已经处理了一些客户退款，并预计在几周内为数千份额外的产品订单提供折扣。
最高法院的裁决没有涉及关税退款问题，这使得企业如何申请退款的问题悬而未决。
律师们的狂欢日
另一家消费品公司“反人类卡牌”（Cards Against Humanity）本周在社交媒体上发帖称，它将向那些“多付了钱”购买该公司一款游戏的客户提供部分退款。条件是：该公司必须从联邦政府获得自己的关税退款。
与此同时，包括博士伦（Bausch & Lomb）、戴森（Dyson）、联邦快递（FedEx）和欧莱雅（L’Oreal）在内的几家大公司已起诉联邦政府要求IEEPA关税退款。
“如果联邦政府向联邦快递退款，我们将向最初承担这些费用的托运人和消费者提供退款，”联邦快递周四在一份声明中表示。“退款何时发生以及请求和发放退款的确切流程，将部分取决于政府和法院的未来指导。”
消费者也在起诉零售商，要求退还与关税相关的费用。摩根·摩根律师事务所周五代表一名为进口网球鞋支付关税的原告，对联邦快递提起集体诉讼的提议。类似的诉讼已针对雷朋太阳镜制造商依视路陆逊梯卡（EssilorLuxottica）提起。
“我们的目标是把美国消费者被不当收取的每一分钱都还给他们，”摩根·摩根律师约翰·摩根和约翰·扬丘尼斯在给CBS新闻的声明中表示。
This small business owner is already giving her customers a tariff refund
2026-02-27 / CBS News
As some of the biggest U.S. companies sue the Trump administration to obtain tariff refunds, one small company is already giving money back to consumers.
Alexandra Fine, CEO of Dame Products, a sexual health and wellness company, said she is giving consumers automatic refunds for costs they incurred from import tariffs President Trump imposed last year under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The Supreme Court ruled last week that the emergency tariffs were illegal.
“We are giving that money back to the people because if somebody charges you something and it’s unlawful, they should give you your money back,” she told CBS News.
Dame, which last year implemented a $5 Trump tariff surcharge on customer purchases, in 2025 paid a total of $70,000 in tariffs stemming from IEEPA. Fine also said she hopes the federal government, as well as other businesses, will follow suit and provide customers with tariff refunds.
“Just clicking a button”
“We have all the information. We can see every customer that had this surcharge tacked on, so we are just clicking a button and sending them their money back,” Fine, who co-founded Dame in 2014, told CBS News.
Alexandra Fine, the founder and CEO of sexual wellness company Dame, said she is reimbursing customers for tariff costs on their purchases. Aurielle Sayeh
Consumers and businesses last year paid nearly 90% of U.S. tariffs in the form of higher costs, according to a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, although other analyses have found somewhat lower “pass-through” rates to shoppers.
The Trump administration, which claims that foreign governments and exporters absorb most tariff costs, vehemently disputes the New York Fed’s findings.
Businesses could be owed up to $165 billion in refunds of IEEPA tariffs they paid in 2025 and early 2026, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a nonpartisan research initiative focused on public policy analysis.
Fine introduced her business’ tariff surcharge in April 2025, after Mr. Trump announced country-based tariffs on dozens of U.S. trade partners. Tariffs on China, where Dame manufactures its products, ultimately settled at 20%.
Today, Dame now faces 15% tariff on imports from China after Mr. Trump, responding to the high court’s ruling against his use of IEEPA, last week invoked another trade law to impose a temporary, across-the-board duty on U.S. imports.
Fine said Dame paid a total of roughly $100,000 in tariffs last year, about $70,000 of which stemmed from IEEPA duties. She has already processed some customer refunds and expects to deliver rebates on thousands of additional product orders within a few weeks.
The Supreme Court’s ruling didn’t touch on the issue of tariff refunds, leaving open the question of how businesses could file for reimbursement.
A field day for lawyers
Another consumer goods company, Cards Against Humanity, said in a post on social media this week that it will give customers who “overpaid” for one of the company’s games a partial refund. The catch: That refund is contingent on the business getting its own tariff refund from the federal government.
Meanwhile, several major companies, including Bausch & Lomb, Dyson, FedEx and L’Oreal, have sued the federal government for IEEPA tariff refunds.
“If refunds are issued to FedEx, we will issue refunds to the shippers and consumers who originally bore those charges,” FedEx said in a statement on Thursday. “When that will happen and the exact process for requesting and issuing refunds will depend in part on future guidance from the government and the court.”
Consumers are also suing retailers to demand refunds for tariff-related costs. Law firm Morgan & Morgan on Friday filed a proposed class action against FedEx on behalf of a plaintiff who paid the duties for imported tennis shoes. A similar suit has been filed against Ray-Ban sunglasses maker EssilorLuxottica.
“Our goal is to return to American consumers every penny they were improperly charged,” Morgan & Morgan attorneys John Morgan and John Yanchunis said in a statement to CBS News.
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