importer: regrets over using lawyer for IEEPA
OK, so long story short:
my company imports a ton from China (mugs with an alarm clock inside, if you must know) and we paid WELL over 500k in ieepa last year. When the whole supreme court thing happened (making the tariffs illegal) our go-to counsel recc'd us some litigation firm (I guess theyre friends?) to handle our refund. Thing is, they told us we'd need to file a bunch of lawsuits in the international trade court or whatever and we are starting to get the bill now that the refunds are coming in....
These guys took 20% of the refund (which seemed fair at the time). But now Im seeing that:
- we didn't need a lawsuit at all
- there are reputable service providers managing this that charge SINGLE DIGITS!!! 3%???
- I'm screwed
My customs broker told me absolutely nothing about this process LITERALLY ZERO and couldnt or wouldnt respond to my emails in a timely manner, Im not saying all CB are like this but I wanted to get that out of the way before yall start blaming me for not using them.