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 […]
Question: Reviewing IEEPA % cap tariffs, such as 99030220 (EU) or 99030283 (Switzerland), these stipulate they are to be the difference between the general rate and IEEPA rate of 15% capped. Auditing my broker submissions, it appears that 2 of my customs brokers have been submitting these as all 15% on the IEEPA line and FREE on […]
Question: My team is having a hard time getting files to go through this morning since the new tariffs went into effect. When transmitting files from Monday, it is rejecting the file. We changed the preliminary date and it is still happening. Please help! Answer 1: Our broker found that for shipments that have an […]
Question: Does anyone have an Excel which lists all of the IEEPA tariffs which are now suspended? We are looking to identify the entries which may be eligible for protests, suspended liquidation and eventual refunds, if/when the courts determine that refunds can be processed. Answer 1: You can start with this file. I got it […]
Question: I’m confused – The court recently ruled that liquidation of U.S. Customs entries does not, by itself, prevent potential future refunds. Why, then, do lawyers still advise filing protests after liquidation—or pursuing a court case? Answer 1: Self-interest I would guess. Lawyers need cases to make money. Our legal team says there is no […]
