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When the Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs in February 2026, roughly $166 billion became refundable across some 53 million entries and about 330,000 importers of record. CBP has moved a lot of it. It has not moved all of it — and what is left is not spread evenly.
Find out in under a minute where you stand — the calculator below applies the exact statutory rate that was in force on every entry date, for every country, and shows its work.
Calculate my refund now →Large importers with in-house customs teams filed clean declarations in April and were paid. Smaller and mid-market importers are where the friction sits — declarations never filed, declarations rejected on a technicality, and refunds fully approved but frozen because the banking details on file with CBP are wrong.
This calculator applies the exact IEEPA rate that was legally in force on each entry date — every program, every country, every rate change from February 2025 through termination. The math is exact for the numbers you enter; the invoice-grade figure comes from your CBP Form 7501s, which is what the full analysis verifies.
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These are the statutory rates applied day-by-day to your figures — the same schedule my full analysis applies to your actual entry summaries, where declared values replace estimates and the number becomes the one a filing is built on.
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Your CBP Form 7501s through the same engine: the exact, filing-grade number ($4,500 fixed)
Your customs broker — or my licensed filing partner — files the CAPE declaration with CBP
CBP pays you directly, 60–90 days after acceptance. My 12% is invoiced only on money received
Good — they may be exactly who should file. I do the entry-level analysis and hand your broker a filing-ready schedule, then track the declaration to acceptance and payment. Your broker keeps the relationship; you get the analysis they don’t have time to build.
I work with licensed filing partners who can file the CAPE declaration on your entries. You stay the importer of record and CBP pays you directly — the money never routes through me or anyone else.
The most common situation there is. The analysis establishes it from your own records: what was filed, what bounced, what was approved but never paid, and what nobody ever claimed.
Not “our broker says it’s filed.” Not “it’s in process.” Money, received, reconciled. If nobody can answer this in one sentence, that is the finding.
Only the importer of record, or the broker who filed the original entries, can file one. Plenty of importers assumed their broker handled it. Some brokers assumed the importer would. Roughly one in seven declarations has been rejected.
That five-week window carried the highest IEEPA rate of the entire period — 125% reciprocal stacked on 20% fentanyl. Entries from those weeks can be worth more than a year of ordinary shipments combined. If you had containers on the water then, start there.
Declaration accepted, amount certified — and then nothing, because CBP pays by ACH only and the routing or account details on file are wrong or stale. Thousands of declarations are reportedly sitting in exactly this state. The money is not in dispute. It is a data problem.
Typically resolves in weeks, not monthsAround 15% of CAPE declarations have been rejected on validation. A rejection is not a denial — it usually means a mismatch that can be corrected and resubmitted. But it only gets corrected if somebody is actually watching the queue.
Correct and refile, then the standard clock restartsThe most common case in the mid-market, and the most expensive. There is currently no published deadline to file a CAPE declaration, but the payment clock is real: 60 to 90 days after acceptance. Filing in November is not the same as filing now.
Plan on roughly a quarter from filing to fundsOne genuine deadline worth knowing. Once an entry liquidates, a protest under 19 U.S.C. § 1514 must be filed within 180 days. That window is statutory and cannot be extended. Separately, refunds on finally-liquidated entries remain contested — the Court of International Trade ordered relief in July 2026 for importers that had filed suit, and the government has appealed that order to the Federal Circuit. If you have entries approaching a liquidation anniversary, that is a question for trade counsel now rather than later.
I am an independent contractor, not a firm and not a customs broker. Seventeen years in global sourcing and procurement, $1.58B of managed spend, and a working model of the entire IEEPA rate schedule by country and date. I am telling you the boundary up front because in this area the boundary matters.
Sectors I work in. Apparel and footwear, furniture, housewares and tableware, toys and sporting goods, home textiles and rugs, food and beverage, and consumer plastics and packaging. I do not take work in electrical equipment, industrial machinery, vehicle components, aerospace or precision instruments — those sit too close to commitments I already hold, and I would rather say so on the page than halfway through a conversation.
How I get paid — two parts, both agreed in writing before anything starts. A fixed $4,500 exposure analysis: I reconstruct your entries, apply the IEEPA rate that was actually in force on each entry date, and tell you what was paid, what came back and what is still outstanding. You own that report whether or not anything follows. Then 12% of amounts actually recovered, invoiced once the money reaches your account — CBP pays the importer of record directly, never me. If the analysis finds nothing worth chasing, I tell you that in writing and we stop there.
Tell me roughly what you import and where from. I’ll come back with what the IEEPA exposure looks like for a company shaped like yours, which of the three situations you are probably in, and what the next step actually is — even when the honest answer is “your broker already handled this, you’re fine.” That answer is worth knowing too.
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Figures on this page are drawn from CBP filings and public reporting as of August 2026 and are summarised here for orientation, not relied upon as advice. Refund eligibility depends on your specific entries, their liquidation status, and litigation that is still active. Nothing here is legal advice or a guarantee of recovery.