Back in 2025 when I ordered my H2D, I got hit with the Donald Trump tariff.
I finally emailed BL to see if i would get that refunded and they want a tax exempt certificate.
I could probably get one but I kinda feel like they don’t know what I’m talking about.
Did you order your printer directly from Bambu, or from an authorized dealer? Do you know where it shipped from?
Directly from BL. I ordered in the second wave that was available and the price had gone up by $400 and then went down by $400 later.
The tax exempt means something or someone misunderstood what you are talking about like you suspected. That is where you paid tax and were identified exempt entity and shouldn’t have paid it. Sales tax/proper non profit type thing. Its a common thing and probably AI or half reading what you asked for triggered a response for those situations.
If this is accurate, it’s huge news, but I think what has happened is you used confusing terminology that didn’t translate, you need to avoid jargon and political slang that only has meaning to US readers. And you didn’t get “hit with the Donald Trump tariff” at all, the importer did, and that was Bambu Lab. So you aren’t entitled to a tariff refund, they are.
If they want to kick some small fraction of that refund back to you, that’s entirely possible but it’s up to them.
I didn’t use search political rhetoric in my email to them but I did tell them that the tariffs were deemed illegal. I’m surprised there hasn’t been more said about this on here.
I do see your point though.
Yeah, you and almost every other American making a purchase during that period. The Tariffs were additional charges to companies importing certain products into the US. Approximately 90% of cost of the Tariffs were passed on as additional ‘product’ costs to the purchasers of those products. So the ‘hit’ wasn’t a ‘direct’ one - you did not pay the tariff, the company did. You happened to want the product enough that you were willing to pay the extra cost they were charging at the time. To the tune of approximately $166Billion USD.
Subsequently, SCOTUS determined that the Tariffs were illegal and must be returned to the companies by the IRS. They get the money back. You don’t. And no one is telling them they have to pass it back to you. So Windfall to the companies. US consumers, eh, who cares? 
One companies dealing with Tariff refunds so far. Sometimes you get a pay-wall, sometimes you don’t.
Some quotes pulled from the article:(don’t let MY pulls influence your interpitation of things)
“The company said profits surged 53.5% to ¥147.4bn (£694m) over the three months to June, substantially beating expert forecasts for ¥77.8bn.”
“Instead, Nintendo said profits were aided by a refund on US tariffs, after the country’s supreme court ruled in February that Donald Trump’s sweeping “liberation day” trade levies were illegal.”
“The Trump administration has refunded about $100bn from the tariffs charged before the court ruling, representing 60% of the total $165bn collected. Trump has continued to pitch tariffs as a solution for the US economy, bringing back domestic production, securing better trade deals and closing the deficit in the federal budget.”
“While a refund now appears to have come through, Nintendo stopped short of confirming the full amount, at a time when it is still appears to be resisting calls to pass those refunds on to consumers.”
EDit: (dropped one)
“Last month, Nintendo was hit with a class action lawsuit on behalf of customers, which claims the company hiked its prices because of tariffs but later benefited from the refunds. Nintendo’s lawyers described the lawsuit as “meritless”, and that the price customers paid represented “the purchase price of the goods they wanted and received.””
Have you been hit with the new tariifs yet ?
As far as im aware the cost or tariff is/ was passed on to the consumer ,and as bambu appear to export / import (texas) on a singular sale basis , thats still down to you the consumer
I’m not sure what you are saying.
The refund goes to the person/company who paid the tariff, the consumer didn’t, so they don’t get a refund from the government. If Bambu wanted to offer the consumer some money back, that’s nice, but it’s not a tariff refund since you didn’t pay the tariff, they did.
The amount you paid for the printer did not include a “tariff passed on to you”. The price may have been higher, but that isn’t the same thing.
Unfortunately, you paid bambu, and bambu paid the tariff as part of their overall pricing. You only qualify for a refund of the money the admin stole from you if your receipt has a seperate line item for tariff, and you produced a seperate direct payment for that amount. Most consumers did not experience this, unless they had to pay-to-pickup a package. Bambu can get refunds, but theyre under no obligation to send that to you.
Thus your money remains used to fund a cruel humanitarian crisis in cuba, and to build an AI that finds targets for bombs in Iran that seems to love selecting schools hospitals and apartment buildings.
If you’re in the US and bought direct from Bambu, you most likely bought from Bambulab USA Inc. They are probably the Importer of Record for any item imported from Bambu Lab (or their subsiduaries) based in China. As others have said, the tariff would have been paid by the Importer when the items cleared US Customs, not the end customer. Hence, the Importer gets the refund.
Bambulab USA Inc may well have passed the expected cost of the tariff onto the end user as part of the sales and shipping costs, or just incorporated it into the list price of the unit. Whether they chose to pass that refund onto the end users is up to them. You may have more luck contacting Bambulab USA Inc if that’s who your contract of sale was with.
Some companies will pass on tariff refunds, some won’t. Given the absurd amount of admin these tariff changes have involved (and continue to do so) it’s not unrealisic to expect companies to use much of that money to recover the cost they incurred trying to dance to Donny’s ever changing tunes.
If by some quirk you did buy direct from Bambu Labs in China, and are the importer of record, them you’ll be bottom of the list for a refund. They’re starting with the large companies who are owed lots of money and have legal teams that can apply pressure.