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Every importer you filed for between February 2025 and February 2026 may be owed a significant refund. Recoverable duties range from $50K–$500K+ for an SMB with meaningful import volume — real capital their business has already absorbed.
CBP is not issuing automatic refunds.
The importer (or their authorized broker) must file. Doing it manually means hours of preparation — and a single formatting error can take down your entire submission.
RefundDesk handles the preparation.
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Your clients get their refund.
The preparation is where filings fail. Entry classification, liquidation date lookups, ACH confirmation, CSV formatting to CBP spec — done manually, this takes 8 to 15 hours per client. RefundDesk compresses that to under ten minutes.
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CAPE — CBP's system for processing IEEPA tariff refund claims within ACE — works in four stages. Brokers or IORs submit a CAPE Declaration through the CAPE tab in ACE. CBP validates entries, strips IEEPA duty codes, recalculates what's owed, and reliquidates. Phase 1 launched April 20, 2026. It covers unliquidated entries and entries within the 90-day voluntary reliquidation window. CBP targets up to 45 days to process a validated declaration.
Through the CAPE tab in your ACE Portal account — upload a CSV of entry numbers, CBP validates each entry, and eligible entries are reliquidated with IEEPA duties removed. To be eligible, entries must have had IEEPA duties actually paid and carry an IEEPA-specific HTS Chapter 99 code. Only the IOR or the broker who originally filed the entry can submit.
It depends on when your entries liquidated. For CAPE Phase 1, ACE accepts entries liquidated within the preceding 80 days — a rolling window. For entries liquidated more than 80 days ago, the protest path under 19 U.S.C. §1514 applies, with a 180-day deadline from liquidation. There is no extension mechanism for either path.
CAPE covers entries that have not yet liquidated, plus entries that liquidated within the past 90 days. Protest covers entries that liquidated more than 90 days ago but within 180 days — after that, the window closes entirely. A single client's entries may split across both paths. RefundDesk classifies each entry automatically so you can see which path applies. CAPE output is generated for filing. Protest-path entries are identified and flagged for your separate filing.
ACH registration is how CBP disburses refunds. Without it, no payment can be made — even if your filing is approved. Refunds held for missing ACH accrue no interest. ACH set up for duty payments is not sufficient — refund-specific ACH enrollment is a separate step in the importer's ACE sub-account. RefundDesk surfaces ACH enrollment as a required pre-attestation step; confirming enrollment in ACE is completed by you before attesting.
After filing, use the ESO 22 report in ACE to monitor entry processing status. Cross-reference with REV 603 and REV 615 to reconcile Treasury deposits once refunds are transmitted. Common post-filing issues — rounding rejections, HTS sequence errors, center ID pending codes — are documented in the CAPE Filing Reference →.
No — RefundDesk prepares your filing documents. You review, attest, and file under your own license through ACE. Your license, your client relationship, and your filing responsibility remain entirely with you.
A CSV export from your ABI system or ACE portal covering entries on which IEEPA duties were actually paid. RefundDesk requires seven columns: Entry Number, Entry Date, Liquidation Date, Liquidation Status, HTS Code, Chapter 99, and Duty Paid.
Yes — CBP allows IORs to file CAPE Declarations directly through ACE. RefundDesk works the same way: upload your entry data, generate the CAPE Declaration CSV, and upload to the CAPE tab in ACE. One limitation: if a broker filed your entries, only that broker can submit the CAPE Declaration for those entries.
Phase 1 covers unliquidated entries and entries liquidated within 80 days. Entries outside that window — including reconciliation entries, AD/CVD entries with issued liquidation instructions, and entries more than 80 days past liquidation — are excluded from Phase 1. CBP has confirmed these will be addressed in a subsequent phase but has not announced a launch date, stating only that Phase 2 will launch "as soon as ready." RefundDesk will support Phase 2 filings when CBP launches. For now, entries excluded from Phase 1 are flagged in your triage view with their reason.
RefundDesk exists because the IEEPA window opened in February 2026 and independent brokers had no purpose-built tool for the preparation workflow. This is that tool.
Calculations use simple interest under 19 U.S.C. §1505(d), with the applicable IRS quarterly rate cited by Revenue Ruling. Every attestation freezes a complete calculation snapshot — duty principal, interest formula, rate source, IEEPA prefix set, and eligibility classification per entry — at the exact moment you sign. That record is never modified. If CBP guidance changes after you file, the snapshot reflects what the rules were when you attested, not what they are now.
RefundDesk prepares. You review, attest, and file. Your license stays yours.
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