PC cooling outfit Arctic reverses tariff-era price hikes after US government refund — lowers prices across lineup, including coolers and case fans

Arctic Freezer 36-S
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Following a tariff refund from the United States government, popular PC cooling hardware manufacturer Arctic has announced a price rollback for its products sold in the U.S. The refund was made possible after a February 2026 Supreme Court ruling found that the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not grant the President unilateral authority to impose import duties without prior approval from Congress.

The reduced price will be applicable across Arctic’s direct-to-consumer sales channels in the U.S. and is claimed to be already in effect on Amazon and eBay. In its latest blog post, Arctic said, “When U.S. trade tariffs significantly increased, Arctic proactively absorbed as much of the tariffs as possible to protect our customers. While most of the product lineup remained unaffected, price adjustments became necessary for a limited number of products in the U.S. market. At the time, Arctic committed to reversing those increases if circumstances allowed. “

Notably, the company isn't limiting price reductions only to the products that were affected by tariffs. Instead, it's using the refunded tariff money to lower prices across its entire U.S. product lineup. We did a quick price check on Amazon and found that a range of Arctic PC cooling products have indeed dropped in price. For example, the Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360mm AIO liquid cooler has fallen to an all-time low of $69.89, its lowest price ever since it launched in the first half of 2025. In our testing, we were impressed by its chart-topping performance even when it retailed for $125.

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In addition to the price rollback, the company says that it is investing in community initiatives that support technology education and grassroots PC communities in the United States through hardware donations and technical support.

With this announcement, Arctic has become one of the first PC hardware manufacturers to publicly reverse tariff-related price increases following the landmark Supreme Court judgement. While it remains to be seen whether other component and peripheral makers will follow suit, the move will definitely put pressure on brands that previously cited tariffs as a reason for raising prices in the U.S.

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Kunal Khullar
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Kunal Khullar is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware.  He is a long time technology journalist and reviewer specializing in PC components and peripherals, and welcomes any and every question around building a PC.

  • JC5000
    Yeyyyyy
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  • stabbyabi
    What?! You mean to say Americans were paying the trump tariffs the whole time?! I thought They™ were paying the backdoor taxes. If only we had examples from the last 100 years of US history to tell us that broad trade protectionism is a losing strategy.
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  • bill001g
    They should have immediately reversed the prices when the court ruled they were invalid in february and the government stopped collecting them. In addition they like apple have sued to get the money they paid back.

    Just another example of greed by businesses. They put in "temporary" increases for covid or fuel shortages but never decease the price.

    I doubt ddr5 memory will ever get close to what it was even if every AI data center shuts down.
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  • toffty
    bill001g said:
    They should have immediately reversed the prices when the court ruled they were invalid in february and the government stopped collecting them. In addition they like apple have sued to get the money they paid back.

    Just another example of greed by businesses. They put in "temporary" increases for covid or fuel shortages but never decease the price.

    I doubt ddr5 memory will ever get close to what it was even if every AI data center shuts down.
    I'm going to assume you're not aware that it was not guaranteed that any company would receive any payback. It makes complete sense for Arctic to wait until they had received the refund.
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  • bill001g
    toffty said:
    I'm going to assume you're not aware that it was not guaranteed that any company would receive any payback. It makes complete sense for Arctic to wait until they had received the refund.
    To a point that is true....for the money they paid before feburary 2026. It has been 5 or 6 months that they kept the price higher even though they no longer pay the tariff
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  • obvious oscar
    I'm not going to get into the stupidness of Tariffs, we all know the deal who pays them etc.

    But the Freezer 3 Pro, I have it and think it's great.
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  • theverge
    Admin said:
    The company says it is honoring its earlier promise to reverse tariff-driven price increases, becoming one of the first PC hardware vendors to publicly roll back pricing after a major court ruling.

    PC cooling outfit Arctic reverses tariff-era price hikes after US government refund — lowers prices across lineup, including coolers and case fans : Read more
    So the government refunds the tariffs that the consumers paid, and the company keeps all the money.

    Never ordering from them.
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  • JeffreyP55
    https://trumptimer.us/term-countdown/
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