Tariff Refund HQ
Attorney-backed execution across all major customs recovery pathways. We manage the triage, documentation, and filing so your team doesn't have to.
Self-submission portals are tools, not strategy. Our process ensures that every entry is mapped to its most lucrative recovery pathway—whether that's an IEEPA CAPE filing, a formal protest, or a duty drawback claim—before strict filing windows expire.
Duty drawback is a federal refund program administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) under 19 U.S.C. § 1313. It allows U.S. importers and exporters to recover up to 99% of customs duties, taxes, and fees paid on imported merchandise that is subsequently exported or destroyed. It is a fundamental mechanism for reducing supply chain costs and remaining globally competitive.
View service →A tariff protest is a formal legal challenge filed with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) under 19 U.S.C. § 1514. It is the administrative mechanism used by importers to dispute CBP's decisions regarding the classification, valuation, or application of duties (such as IEEPA or Section 301 tariffs) on a specific import entry.
View service →An IEEPA tariff refund is the recovery of duties levied under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) starting in April 2025. Following the Supreme Court's February 2026 ruling in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (which held IEEPA does not authorize tariffs), these duties are legally invalid and eligible for refund.
View service →CAPE (CBP's Accelerated Payment Entry) is the specialized processing channel launched by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in April 2026. It serves as the primary administrative mechanism to process the massive volume of IEEPA tariff refund claims triggered by the Supreme Court vacatur.
View service →Duty drawback filing is the procedural act of assembling import, export, and manufacturing records into a compliant claim package and transmitting it to CBP via the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) to secure a refund of duties paid.
View service →Deadline management in customs recovery is the systematic tracking of statutory expiration dates—primarily 180-day protest windows tied to entry liquidation, and 5-year drawback lookback periods—to ensure legal rights to refunds are not permanently forfeited.
View service →Section 301 tariff refunds refer to the recovery of punitive duties imposed on goods imported from China. Refunds are typically generated when the United States Trade Representative (USTR) grants an exclusion for a specific product category after the tariff was already paid.
View service →Pathway analysis is the strategic, entry-by-entry assessment used to determine the legal and operational mechanism (e.g., Protest, Drawback, CAPE, or Post Summary Correction) that yields the highest probability of recovery with the lowest compliance risk.
View service →Don't miss the 80-day CAPE portal window. Download our comprehensive, one-page readiness checklist to ensure your entries are fully prepared for submission.