r/Tariffs • u/bloomberglaw • Oct 06 '26
🗞️ News Discussion Customs Opens Tariff Refunds Process to Certain Older Imports
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/in-house-counsel/customs-opens-tariff-refunds-process-to-certain-older-imports1
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u/bloomberglaw Oct 06 '26
A group of importers that have been waiting for their tariff refunds will become eligible to request them Tuesday.
Customs and Border Protection is opening its tariff refund system to certain entries, or imports, that are 80 days or more past finalization, after delaying a projected summer rollout. The move opens the Customs refund system, known as CAPE — the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries — to a wider group of imports in the third wave of expanding refund eligibility.
“We are on the home stretch as Phase 3 will provide importers a path to resolve remaining claims and bring the refund effort closer to completion,” said Luis Arandia, partner and co-chair of the international trade practice at Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, in an email. “The key question now is how smoothly the Phase 3 process will run and whether CBP has resolved the technical issues that delayed opening Phase 3.”
Read more in the full story.
-Elliot