WORLDSTORY 649· AUGUST 2, 2026

Amazon gets $600 million back on Trump-era tariffs and will share some of it with customers

Six hundred million dollars in tariff refunds are flowing back to Amazon. A tariff is a tax governments charge on goods brought in from other countries, and the Supreme Court ruled that many of the levies President Donald Trump imposed…

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