A proposed class action filed Friday in Portland federal court says Nike charged customers $5–$10 extra per pair of shoes and $2–$10 more per apparel item to cover tariff costs — then made no commitment to pass refunds back after the Supreme Court struck down those tariffs in February.
The complaint is plain: "Nike stands to recover the same tariff payments twice — once from consumers through higher prices and again from the federal government through tariff refunds." Nike confirmed it paid roughly $1 billion in tariffs on imported goods. That's your money, working its way from your wallet to Beaverton boardrooms.
Nike joins Costco and EssilorLuxottica (Ray-Ban's parent) facing similar suits. Some say this is a tariff policy debate — the deeper issue is a $1 billion corporation that passed every cost down to working folks and is now angling to pocket the rebate.