Question: We filed a large number of CAPE claims in phase 1, and with the recent batch of transmissions to treasury, 98% of our claims are now either refunded or have been transmitted to treasury, with a few stragglers to be transmitted this week based on liquidation date (06/19/26).However, there are a small number of […]
Question: Has anyone else seen a halt in IEEPA/Fentanyl tariff refunds? We received an initial group of refunds three weeks ago and have not seen anything since. Answer 1: The refunds are coming in waves. Keep an eye on the ES-022 report and keep it, or download it filtered with most recent refund date at […]
Question: Have other members seeing refunds for IEEPA continuing trickling in? We have filed all entries in CAPE on 4/20, and we have quickly received about 30% of refunds. However, after end of May, nothing is showing up on CAPE refund reports. Do others see the same pattern, or we should inquire about our cases? […]
Question: Our refund went to the Notify party and our broker billed us $315 to process our refund. Can they legally do that even though they’ve had our refund for one month and still haven’t sent us the money? We should be charging them interest for keeping our money this long. Please let me know […]
Question: We have submitted for our eligible IEEPA refunds. Like many companies, we charged a tariff surcharge to our customers on materials where the tariffs were applied. We are now getting letters from customers demanding refunds for the IEEPA tariffs they paid. Has anyone seen this? How is your business handling if you have? Is […]
Question: One of our entries was submitted through CAPE twice and CAPE accepted it twice. So we have two claim numbers for the same entry number and just received two confirmed transmissions of the refund to the treasury.What do we need to do? Assuming CBP will catch up with this eventually?? Anyone else have this […]
Question: We are seeing staggered refunds for our CAPE filing.A few that were close to the 80 days were immediately re-liquidated without IEEPA on 4/22 and 4/28. But, nothing in our bank account yet.The majority are now listed as liquidating on 6/5. These were all set to liquidate in May 26 or after.Anyone else see […]
Question: If an entry has already been liquidated and the 180‑day protest window is approaching, is it still recommended to file a protest? Answer 1: Because jurisdictional issues have not been fully resolved, and because CBP has not addressed the Court’s order to reliquidated finally liquidated entries, you need to take the necessary actions to […]
Question: We have been approached by a 3rd party which is offering to pay us 90% of our expected Phase 1 IEEPA tariff refund if we sell our refund rights to them. They said they would pay us in 2-4 weeks, versus our assuming the risk that the government will appeal the refund decision and […]
Question: We have submitted our qualifying entries into the CAPE portal. We understand that refunds can take up to 90 days from when they were submitted successfully. Does anyone know how refunds will be issued? Will this be a first in first paid? Or is it when an entry liquidates? Answer 1: Per training sessions […]
Question: Has anyone seen any common issue with the reject UNABLE TO CALCULATE DUTY, when making the CAPE filing? I have a few, but don’t see the issue. I am thinking it may be the HTS# sequence or something similar??? If it does have something to do with the original entry, how would we fix […]
Question: My accounting department is keen to understand how CBP will calculate the additional interest on top of the IEEPA duties we overpaid and have submitted refunds for using CAPE (Phase 1) process.Will the additional interest be calculated starting with the entry date (e.g. when our IEEPA payment was originally made) and end with the […]
