For months, Amazon would not say whether it planned to seek a refund on the tariffs President Donald Trump imposed under emergency powers. In May, that silence became a legal problem when consumers filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in Seattle, arguing they were owed refunds for paying tariff-inflated prices and alleging the company wasn’t seeking refunds in order to “curry favor” with Trump.
On Thursday evening, CFO Brian Olsavsky disclosed the company received $600 million in tariff refunds during the second quarter and pledged to automatically issue reimbursements to consumers under a “limited set of circumstances.”
