For many small businesses, like Portland-based manufacturer Steven Smith Teamaker, Trump’s tariffs were “debilitating.”
PORTLAND, Ore. — This story comes from the Portland Business Journal, a KGW News partner. The full story is here.
After the federal government began accepting applications for tariff refunds on Monday, Oregon companies began scrambling to submit their paperwork.
The system was set up after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that tariffs collected after President Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were illegal. Some 330,000 different importers paid an estimated $175 billion in Trump administration tariffs.
Damon Runberg, senior economist at Business Oregon, estimates that Oregon importers
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