Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath. Though the Supreme Court has stymied the tariffs for the time being, the situation remains in flux for companies manufacturing goods outside the U.S. and sent stateside.
Nintendo of America's lawsuit is largely targeting refunds of the previously imposed tariffs that the Supreme Court struck down; the Supreme Court found that Trump could not invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to put the tariffs in place. Nintendo of America's lawyers list the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent; U.S. Department of Homeland Security and former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem; Office of the United States Trade Representative and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer; U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott; and the U.S. Department of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.
"This action concerns Defendants' initiation and administration of unlawful trade measures that have, to date, resulted in the collection of more than $200 billion in tariffs on imports from nearly all countries," lawyers write in the complaint.