Customers are taking Ikea to federal court in Philly to demand refunds for tariff price hikes

PHILADELPHIA - When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs in February, companies swiftly lined up to demand a refund.

And Ikea shoppers want their money back too.

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Philadelphia asks a judge to order the furniture company to pay back customers for their share of the price increases for the months the tariffs were in place.

Brenda Perez, one of the two customers from California who brought the suit, purchased a shelf unit, greenhouse, picture frames, and plant pots from Ikea in December, according to the complaint. As a result of the tariffs that had been implemented in April 2025, Perez paid $2 to $7 more for each item just two months before the Supreme Court overturned the duties, the lawsuit says.

The added charge was part of "Ikea's tariff pass-through pricing," the suit says.

If that doesn't seem like a big refund request, consider that Ikea had $5.3 billion in sales in the United States in the fiscal year that ended in August. Nearly 61 million people visited Ikea stores across the country, and hundreds of millions more visited the company's online store.

The company declined to comment on the litigation. Attorneys for the customers also declined to comment.

The Swedish company is based in the Netherlands, but Conshohocken has been home to Ikea's U.S. headquarters for 40 years.

The suit is the latest in the fallout of Trump's tariff that the highest court in the land deemed unconstitutional.

Trump announced worldwide double-digit tariffs in April 2, 2025. The president invoked the International Emergency Economics Power Act to issue the new duties without congressional approval.

Many companies, including Ikea, increased prices in response.

"We have to adapt and pass on parts of the cost increase to the customers," Tolga Öncü, retail manager at Ingka, the company that operates most Ikea stores worldwide, told the Wall Street Journal in October.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in February that Trump overstepped his authority in imposing the tariffs, and struck them down.

Thousands of companies sued the administration to get back their share of the more than $166 billion in duties collected unlawfully. And in March, the Court of International Trade ruled that importers are owed a refund.

The refunds are estimated at staggering amounts.

Walmart, for example, is owed $10.2 billion, according to a Citi Group report.

The federal government opened the portal for retailers to request a refund this month, but customers are in the dark on whether the extra money they paid will return to their pockets. Some companies, such as FedEx and UPS, promised to return the money to their customers.

An Ikea spokesperson did not respond to whether the company planned to make a similar promise.

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