{"id":2481,"date":"2026-03-07T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-trump-administration-says-it-cant-process-tariff-refunds-because-of-computer-problems\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:17:08","slug":"the-trump-administration-says-it-cant-process-tariff-refunds-because-of-computer-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-trump-administration-says-it-cant-process-tariff-refunds-because-of-computer-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump administration says it can\u2019t process tariff refunds because of computer problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An image showing a shipping crate on a red background\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/STKS488_TARIFFS_CVirginia_A.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The US Customs and Border Protection says it currently can&rsquo;t comply with an order to process billions of dollars in refunds stemming from tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/27776175-cbp-tariff-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a filing on Friday<\/a>, CBP executive director Brandon Lord says the agency&rsquo;s digital import processing system is \u00ab\u00a0not well suited to a task of this scale,\u00a0\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/06\/trump-trade-tariffs-refunds-customs-border-protection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as reported earlier by CNBC<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The CBP&rsquo;s admission comes after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2026\/02\/supreme-court-strikes-down-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court struck down the tariffs<\/a> imposed by Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) last month. This week, the International Trade Court ruled that importers impacted by the tariffs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-03-04\/judge-orders-us-to-stop-calculating-ieepa-tariffs-for-importers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are entitled to refunds with i \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/890904\/trump-administration-cbp-tariff-refunds-technology-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Customs and Border Protection says it currently can&rsquo;t comply with an order to process billions of dollars in [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}