In February 2026, the Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs collected through 2025 and 2026. CBP is refunding overpaid duties — but only to importers who file the right way, through the right channel, before their window closes. Anchor Refund Solutions runs that process for you, start to finish.
In early 2025, the federal government began charging import duties under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act — a law that had never before been used to impose tariffs. Rates ran from roughly 10% on most trading partners up into triple digits on goods from China, with separate charges layered on Canada and Mexico. Every importer paid them at the border, no exceptions and no appeal.
The Supreme Court rules 6–3 that IEEPA does not give the president authority to impose tariffs, invalidating the duties collected under it.
The Court of International Trade orders CBP to build a mechanism for refunding the tariffs already collected from importers.
CBP opens Phase One of CAPE — its new refund portal built into the Automated Commercial Environment.
Refunds move on a rolling basis. Unliquidated entries clear fastest; liquidated entries need a protest filed inside a 180-day window.
Figures reflect CBP's own filings with the Court of International Trade. Anchor Refund Solutions is an independent recovery firm and is not affiliated with CBP or any federal agency.
Eligibility isn't complicated to check — it's just tedious to verify across hundreds or thousands of entries, which is usually where importers get stuck. We do that verification as part of your free audit.
If most of the items on the right describe your business, you very likely have duties sitting with CBP that are recoverable.
You imported goods into the United States in 2025 or 2026.
You were the importer of record on those entries — or a customs broker filed on your behalf.
Some of the duties charged included an IEEPA or "reciprocal tariff" line item.
Your entries are either still unliquidated, or were liquidated within the last 180 days.
→ Checked most of these? Your entries are worth a closer look.
We built this process to sit alongside your operations, not interrupt them. Most clients spend less than an hour of their own time on the entire claim.
Send your entry summaries, or connect your customs broker, and we review your full 2025–2026 import history to flag every line item that included an IEEPA tariff — and estimate what's recoverable. No cost, no obligation.
Unliquidated entries need a Post Summary Correction; liquidated entries need a formal protest before their 180-day window closes. We sort your entries into the correct path and assemble the data into the exact format CBP's system requires.
Your claim is filed through the CAPE portal inside ACE — or through your broker's account, if that's how your entries are set up. We monitor validation and handle any resubmissions if an entry gets kicked back.
CBP recalculates your duties as though the IEEPA line never applied and schedules the entries for liquidation or reliquidation. We check status regularly and follow up so your file doesn't stall in a queue.
Your refund, plus statutory interest accrued from your original deposit date, is paid by ACH to your enrolled account. We confirm the deposit and close out the file.
Once your audit is complete, you choose how you'd rather be paid. Both paths run through the same filing.
Nothing here is impossible to do on your own. It's just slow, easy to get wrong, and easy to let slip behind actual operations.
| Task | On Your Own | With Anchor |
|---|---|---|
| Entry review & IEEPA line identification | Manual, entry by entry | Done across your full import history |
| PSC vs. protest determination | Research it yourself | Handled by customs specialists |
| CAPE / ACE portal filing | You submit and track it | We file and track it for you |
| 180-day protest deadline | Yours to monitor | Monitored on your behalf |
| Resubmissions & CBP follow-up | You respond to rejections | We manage the back-and-forth |
| Time from your team | Days of staff hours | About the time it takes to send us your data |
Every claim is different, so we won't promise a number. What we can show you is how the process runs in practice.
Several hundred entries from 2025 reviewed and filed inside the protest window, without pulling the client's team off day-to-day shipping.
Entries spanned three ports and two customs brokers. We consolidated everything into a single CAPE filing and sent weekly status updates.
A mix of liquidated and unliquidated entries meant two filing paths running at once. We managed both without the client opening a spreadsheet.
Individual results vary based on claim specifics. All examples are anonymized for client confidentiality. Past outcomes do not guarantee future results.
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act lets a president restrict trade during a declared national emergency. It had never been used to impose tariffs before 2025. In February 2026, the Supreme Court ruled that using it that way exceeded presidential authority — which is why duties collected under it are now being refunded.
Likely yes. Eligibility follows the importer of record, not whoever physically filed the paperwork. If you were the importer of record and a broker filed on your behalf, the claim is still yours to make.
A Post Summary Correction (PSC) amends an entry before it's finalized, or "liquidated," and follows the normal liquidation cycle with no separate deadline. A protest — CBP Form 19 — is required once an entry has already been liquidated, and must be filed within 180 days of that liquidation date.
Yes, for any entry that's already liquidated: you have 180 days from the liquidation date to file a protest, and the claim generally closes after that. Unliquidated entries follow the standard cycle, but filing earlier generally means a faster refund.
Yes. By statute, CBP owes interest on overpaid duties from the date you deposited them until the date of refund, currently accruing at 6% annually.
Yes — CBP requires refund recipients to be enrolled in its ACH refund program before it will issue payment. We confirm your enrollment status as part of the filing process and help you complete it if you haven't yet.
Pricing depends on how many entries are involved and which filing path applies, so we walk through it during your free eligibility review. There's no cost to find out where you stand.
Yes. Your entry data is used only to prepare and file your claim, and isn't shared beyond what's required to submit it to CBP.
Still have questions? The fastest way to get answers specific to your entries is to start the free review.
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