IKEA customers sue company over Trump tariff refunds

IKEA customers recently sued the company and have taken legal action against it.

They have filed a lawsuit, which is a formal case brought to court, claiming that IKEA owes them money related to tariff refunds.

In a formal lawsuit against the world's leading furniture retailer, IKEA customers in the U.S. have sued the company in a proposed class action seeking refunds for higher prices charged by the Swedish company before the U.S. 

The Supreme Court struck down import tariffs imposed ‌by President Donald Trump.

The lawsuit filed on Friday in federal court in Pennsylvania seeks class action status for potentially hundreds of thousands of customers who allegedly paid higher prices under the tariffs.

“It would be unjust for defendants to retain the overcharges paid by the plaintiff and class members because these overcharges comprise tariff expenses that defendants passed along to their customers, and these tariffs were illegal,” the lawsuit said.

The Supreme Court ruled in February that Trump overstepped his authority by invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose the sweeping tariffs, which earned the U.S. billions of dollars in revenue.

IKEA and thousands of other companies are eligible to seek refunds from the U.S. government for tariffs deemed unlawful, but consumers who bore those costs have no direct mechanism to recover the money, the ‌lawsuit said.

Costco, Amazon, Nike, and FedEx are also facing lawsuits demanding they pass tariff refunds on to customers.

The United States is IKEA's second-biggest market after Germany.

IKEA was forced to increase prices on some products in the United States to offset the tariff impact, according to the lawsuit.

The plaintiff said she was overcharged in July 2025 when she spent $859 on a loft bed.

The lawsuit also said IKEA increased the price of some sofas, including one whose cost rose $50 in August.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages. For the plaintiff, it's Jeffrey Goldenberg of Goldenberg Schneider and Diana Zinser of Spector Roseman & Kodroff, while for the defendant there is no appearance yet.

The case is Lisa Matthews v. IKEA North America Services LLC et al., U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, No. 2:26-cv-03712.

Notably, IKEA and attorneys for the South Carolina resident who filed the lawsuit did not immediately respond to comment on the matter yet.