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Facing weary customers, Walmart will use its nearly $3 billion in tariff refunds to lower prices

Walmart spent much of the past year warning that Trump’snow struck-downLiberation Day tariffs would raise prices on store shelves. Now, nearly $3 billion of that money is coming back to the retail giant, and. . .
fortune.com
August 20, 2026
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Mia Osmonbekov
Facing weary customers, Walmart will use its nearly $3 billion in tariff refunds to lower prices
WHAT HAPPENED
Walmart spent much of the past year warning that Trump’snow struck-downLiberation Day tariffs would raise prices on store shelves. Now, nearly $3 billion of that money is coming back to the retail giant, and it plans to use the windfall to lower prices as consumers feel the pain in their pockets. 9 billion in tariff refunds that the Supreme Court ruled were unlawfully imposed under President Donald Trump’s emergency powers—approximately half a percent of its annual U. CFO John David Rainey said on Walmart’searnings callThursday that the company has now received “substantially all” of that money and will reinvest it into lowering prices “because customers need us to. “We’ve taken a disciplined approach to investing these funds back into customer experience and price leadership, prioritizing investment in grocery and general merchandise categories,” Rainey told analysts on the call.
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