The Court of International Trade (CIT) has ordered U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to refund IEEPA duties—triggering one of the largest refund exercises the agency has ever faced.
CBP has made it clear it cannot execute that order at scale using its current processes, pointing to more than 53 million IEEPA-affected entries across roughly 330,000 U.S. importers of record.
To meet that obligation, CBP has launched CAPE (Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries)—an initiative to build and deploy new ACE-based functionality to process refunds in bulk. The court has paused immediate compliance while that capability is developed.
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