Feds have rejected 15% of businesses' tariff refund claims

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Roughly 15% of tariff refund requests person been rejected since a authorities reimbursement portal launched connected April 20, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

As of April 26, the national bureau had received much than 75,000 refund requests from U.S. businesses and different importers. More than 47,000 claims encompassing immoderate 11 cardinal tariff payments were decently filed, CBP authoritative Brandon Lord said successful a filing with the Court of International Trade connected Tuesday.

The bureau launched the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries tariff refund system, known arsenic CAPE, to comply with an bid issued pursuing the Supreme Court's February ruling striking down exigency levies imposed by President Trump.

The bureau launched the caller tariff refund hub, known arsenic CAPE, for Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries, to comply with an bid pursuing the Supreme Court's February ruling striking down exigency levies imposed by President Trump.

Nick Richards, a spouse astatine instrumentality steadfast Greenspoon Marder who has advised clients seeking tariff refunds, told CBS News that immoderate businesses are apt making errors successful their claims submissions. In the archetypal signifier of the refund process, CAPE is lone accepting applications for tariffs that person been finalized by CBP oregon estimated duties that tin inactive beryllium estimated.

Additionally, businesses whitethorn lone question refunds for tariffs imposed by the Trump medication nether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

"There are parameters, and I would ideate immoderate of the submissions are extracurricular of that scope," Richards said.

Apart from immoderate glitches erstwhile CAPE launched past week, the portal is moving smoothly, according to CBP.

"Since the opening of CAPE connected April 20, 2026, the lone clip during which the CAPE functionality was not disposable for usage by importers and their brokers was an 18-minute play connected April 20, 2026, erstwhile CBP concisely paused the quality to taxable declarations to reconfigure resources and optimize the processing of CAPE declarations," Lord said successful the filing.

Despite immoderate hiccups, Richards said the process appears to beryllium going smoothly. "I was amazed astatine the velocity with which Customs enactment up this portal, truthful kudos to them," helium said. "They've done an astonishing occupation rolling this out."

Edited by Alain Sherter

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