Warehouse giant Costco has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking a full refund on tariffs that the company says were wrongly put in place by the president.

The case, which was filed on Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade, focuses on high tariffs, or import taxes, that President Donald Trump started placing on goods from several countries, including China, Mexico and Canada, earlier this year.

The lawsuit states that Congress, not the president, can set tariffs and therefore Trump exceeded the authority granted to him by the 1977 emergency law called the “International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

“The text of IEEPA does not use the word ‘tariff’ or any term of equivalent meaning,” the court document reads. “IEEPA was first enacted in 1977 and ha

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