None of that is going to customers who overpaid, is it?
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They sue over this but not when ICE used their Pokemon IP on their videos?
That's 2 different companies (Nintendo vs The Pokemon Company). But also yeah, obviously they have much more to gain when it's about $200B.
I have to suspect it's 200b yen, even though the article states "$200 billion". The later with a 15% tarrif would imply $1.33 trillion in US sales in the last year, which I highly doubt
According to news sites, the US government took in about $166 billion, although I'm also seeing $175 billion floating around. CBP is claiming that they can't comply with the refund order as quickly as they want because of technological and manpower excuses. They're claiming that the large number of refunds and the current manpower is limiting their ability to quickly issue these refunds.
Manpower? They could use the ICE idiots as manpower
The article states $166 billion in duties and tariffs total, not from Nintendo products. It doesn't actually state an amount for Nintendo in particular.
Sadly they had no legal standing on that due to parody law. I'm sure they would have if they could have.
Music rights are notoriously convoluted. Long story short, that's not their department.
nintendo only owns 1/3 of pokemon apparently, the other is gamefrek/masuda, i forgot the 3rd one.
The Pokémon Company owns the other third
The Pokémon Company is a joint venture between Nintendo, GameFreak and Creatures Inc. Control of TPC is what people mean when they say Nintendo/GameFreak "own" 30%.
The story behind the trio is an interesting read, and IIRC Creatures is like wholly owned by Nintendo anyway so they technically have majority control of TPC.
I just hope this gets more huge companies to start suing. I've already accepted that I won't see any of that money again so I'd at least love to see how far this goes.
I'm going to be honest I have trouble believing Nintendo sold anywhere close to $200 billion dollars worth of switch 2s.
Absolute fucking shit article.
Read the fucking lawsuit before ya compose and post your feeble excuse for journalism, Mr. Tom Shardware.
The total tariffs globally collected are around $200B but Nintendo is only seeking the return of their chunk plus attorney fees.
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Huh?
Of course you do he’s a Nintendo IP
Oh trump. What have you wrought?
I thought the tariff total collected by pedo Trump and his fash buddies was "only" $176 Billion?
argues that those tariffs were unlawfully imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) and seeks the return of the collected duties "with interest," along with attorney fees and the reprocessing of its import entries.
Simply amazing lol. Certainly tired of all the "winning".
I cant imagine how powerful a corporation can be if they feel comfortable suing the fucking governemtnt
People sue the us government all the time over just about anything. It's only under this guy that it seems dangerous. But even then, as long as they bribe him, they can steal from the US government all they want and he won't do anything.
I think it's great that organizations can and do sue the government

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