Imposing new tariffs isn't ignoring the judgment, because he's doing the new ones under a different law.
Refusing to repay the tariff money is arguably ignoring the judgment, but unfortunately the judgment doesn't contain a mechanism for the repayment so they can just say "they didn't order us to actually do anything".
Moreover, even if every business that paid a tariff since Trump took office got its money back, they're not going to give that money back to the people who bought their products at an increased price due to tariff charges - they're just going to keep it. So even if it happens, all it is is a massive tax cut for businesses.
And the businesses for whom that might be a good thing (i.e. small business) are going to be, in many cases, too small to pay the legal fees it's going to require to get the government to cough up their refunds.
Like, none of this is actually good news, really.
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