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Ashley Akers

Ashley Akers

Jun 29, 2026

4:44
And on that July 24th date, we expect the administration to replace the 122 tariffs with new tariffs under Section 301, which is an issue we'll be discussing a little bit later.
4:55
And on the IEEPA tariff refund front, as Pat mentioned, after the Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs back in February of 2026, there's been really extensive litigation at the Court of International Trade, as well as movement at Customs and Border Protection, CBP, to help effectuate refunds to the hundreds of thousands of importers that paid nearly $200 billion in IEEPA tariffs.
5:21
Currently, there are two avenues by which importers of record are able to pursue refunds.
5:27
One at Customs, directly from Customs.
5:30
There are different phases that Customs has laid out for importers to seek refunds and file for those.
5:37
However, those only cover about 60% of the refunds available.
5:42
The other avenue that the Department of Justice insists that importers of record must take is by pursuing the refunds in an active litigation at the Court of International Trade.

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29:33
Ashley, do you wanna take it away?
43:20
What is it like to have all of that work and all of those cases and all of those convictions and all of those sentences wiped away by the president?
43:30
Um, it was appalling really.
43:32
I think that the pardons that happened, uh, were disturbing.
43:36
They were disturbing for a number of reasons.
43:39
They were disturbing because it condones the violence that you just described, and that the prosecutors on the team have been describing for years in court.
43:49
It condones that, and this wasn't ordinary violence.
43:51
As, as you described earlier, the police officers who were testifying in trials for years talked about this being the scariest day of their lives.

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50:05
... already been hired.

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