Nobody likes tariffs (almost nobody anyway), and neither does Nintendo. According to reports flooding the interwebs today, Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government to get back some of those golden coins it lost when tariffs initially went in place ahead of the Switch 2 launch.
More specifically, Nintendo is suing the United States Treasury Department, Customs & Border Protection, and Homeland Security to get back money it paid to the U.S. Government when Trump’s levies hit last year.
Those tariffs have since been deemed illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court and put on hold as Trump threatens to put them back in place once more, but Nintendo has apparently already been hit hard by them and it wants its cash back.
The lawsuit, which was spotted by the folks at Aftermath, was filed on Friday stating that Trump and the gang have collected cash from companies delivering products into the U.S dating back to February 2025. It states that Trump’s executive orders regarding tariffs “on imports from a vast swath of countries” were entirely “unlawful.”
Not only does Nintendo want a refund on the unlawful duties it paid, but it wants them “with interest” too.
Nintendo’s legal team says the company has “suffered injury” from the illegal tariffs, forcing it to delay pre-orders of its biggest product launch in the better part of a decade (Nintendo Switch 2) and, as you likely know, raise prices on official accessories.
According to reports, U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently stated that it will not be able to issue refunds on tariffs issued by Trump, so it sounds like legal action was Nintendo’s only choice here.
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