The federal government this week launched a platform to process refund requests to comply with the Supreme Court ruling in late February that President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs were illegal. And you almost certainly won’t see a dime. That’s because reimbursements are limited to “importers of record and authorized customs brokers” – the people who paid the tariffs directly. If a business passed that cost on to you in the form of a higher price, you may have paid for the tariff, but you did not pay it to the government. The odds are, therefore, that the millions of Americans who paid more because of the duties won’t see any of the estimated $166 billion the feds collected from the tariffs Trump levied under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The administration said in a court filing that more than 330,000 importers had paid tariffs on more than 53 million import entries. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says repayments (via the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries, or CAPE) “will generally be issued within …