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Marketplace Morning Report

Tariff refunds are coming

Marketplace Morning Report

Marketplace

Business, News

4.5927 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration says it’ll start issuing refunds for tariffs the Supreme Court ruled were collected illegally next week. Customs and Border Protection's automated system will be able to process about 82% of the tariff payments, worth about $127 billion. More complicated claims will have to wait. Then, we'll discuss what the closure of the Strait of Hormuz means for U.S. oil producers. Plus, could a United Airlines-American Airlines merger be in the cards?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tariff refunds are coming. From Marketplace, I'm Sabrina Bennishoor in New York. The Trump administration says it will start issuing refunds next week for tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled were collected illegally. The administration is starting with the simpler cases. More complicated claims will have to wait. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Gensar has the details.

0:23.8

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it'll launch the first phase of its refund system this Monday.

0:29.6

CBP says the automated system will be able to process about 82% of the tariff payments it has to refund.

0:36.1

They're worth about $127 billion. The system won't be

0:39.9

able to handle about $3 billion in more complicated refunds. They have to go through a slower

0:45.0

manual process. The refunds are for tariffs that were struck down by the Supreme Court earlier

0:50.2

this year. The court did not rule on refunds, leaving that up to the Court of International

0:55.4

Trade, which decided importers could get their money back. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott

1:00.9

Bessent said yesterday that new tariffs under a different section of trade law could be

1:05.6

implemented this summer and that import taxes could be back, quote, at the previous level,

1:12.3

by the beginning of July.

1:15.1

I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.

1:19.5

A barrel of Brent Crude is $96.

1:30.0

That is up just a touch after falling yesterday on optimism that the U.S. and Iran could soon have a second round of peace talks. The current ceasefire ends next week.

1:36.9

Meanwhile, the U.S. says its military blockade has entirely halted Iranian trade through the Strait of Ormuz.

1:46.4

And in the background of all of this, are global oil and gas supply chains that are continuing to experience shockwaves from this war.

1:50.7

So to get us up to speed on all of that, we are talking to Fernando Valley.

1:54.6

He's managing director of energy for the investment firm Hedge Eye Risk Management.

1:56.1

Fernando, nice to have you back.

1:57.4

Happy to be here, Smith.

2:01.0

President Trump has said the closure of the Strait of Hormuz could be great for U.S. oil producers. Is that the case? Yes. For the most part, he's correct. There are two challenges

2:09.9

there, which is there's a limitation on how much global refiners can take of U.S. crude because U.S. crude produces a lot of gasoline.

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