IKEA Sued Over Tariff Price Hikes: Customers Want Their Money Back

IKEA is being sued for allegedly passing the cost of illegal tariffs onto customers and pocketing the difference after the Supreme Court struck the tariffs down.

Two customers, Patrick Terrill and Brenda Perez, filed a proposed class action in Philadelphia federal court on April 27. The complaint alleges that when President Trump's IEEPA tariffs went into effect in April 2025, IKEA raised prices to offset the import costs — and kept those prices inflated even after the Supreme Court overturned the tariffs about eight months later.

According to the complaint, Perez bought a shelf unit, greenhouse, picture frames, and plant pots from IKEA in December 2025 and paid $2 to $7 more per item because of what the lawsuit calls "IKEA's tariff pass-through pricing." Some sofas reportedly went up by $50. The plaintiffs argue that since IKEA, as the importer of record, is the only party legally allowed to claim a refund from the U.S. Court of International Trade — and thousands of importers have already done so — customers are the ones left holding the bag.

For context on the scale: IKEA pulled in $5.3 billion in U.S. sales in its fiscal year ending August 2025. Roughly 61 million people walked into a U.S. IKEA store that year, plus hundreds of millions more online.

IKEA declined to comment. A similar lawsuit was recently filed against athleisure brand Fabletics over the same tariff pass-through theory.

How to File

There's no settlement yet — the case was just filed. If it eventually settles or wins, eligible customers will likely be anyone in the U.S. who bought IKEA products at the inflated prices while the IEEPA tariffs were in effect.

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