The good news is that the Trump Administration is beginning to pay back (with interest) the $166 billion-plus it illegally took from Americans in import taxes under IEEPA -- a statute that doesn't even mention tariffs, and is intended to help the Chief Executive act quickly and decisively in real emergencies, anyway.The bad news is that this is a bureaucratic process to begin with, and even if the President weren't opposed to returning the money, the process comes with real challenges:The trade court's order appeared to set off a scramble among federal customs officials to put together a digital process for handling a crush of requests, according to legal filings. Those filings also revealed the technical challenges that the Trump administration faced in trying to return the money.Among the many obstacles, the Trump administration said it had to stand up an entirely new system that could process refunds in bulk and disentangle illegal tariffs from legal ones on those same goods. At…
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