Check Your CBP IEEPA Tariff Refund Status Online

IEEPA refund status is tracked inside the ACE Portal rather than through a public lookup page. Start in the CAPE tab, where the File Upload Status column shows whether your declaration was accepted and the CAPE Claim Status section shows entry-level results you can download. From there, ACE Reports fill in the rest: REV-603 for pending and successful refunds, REV-615 for CAPE-specific entry-level detail, and REV-613 for refunds rejected over ACH enrollment. If your broker filed on your behalf and you have no portal account, CBP directs you to coordinate with that broker for status.

To check status yourself you need an ACE Portal account with importer sub-account access, your importer of record number, the entry numbers at issue, and your CAPE claim number once one has been assigned. Worth knowing: the CAPE Declaration itself is only a CSV list of entry numbers, and CBP requires no supporting documents at submission. Invoices, entry summaries, and payment records matter for verifying eligibility and reconciling refunds afterward, not for the upload. Confirm your ACH banking details are on file in ACE before filing, since refunds cannot be released without them.

An accepted declaration only means the file cleared validation. It does not mean CBP has finished reviewing the entry, calculated the refund, assigned a refund number, or sent it to Treasury, so a gap between CAPE tab activity and anything appearing in the refund reports is normal. Entries that are extended, suspended, or under review keep their existing liquidation status and pay out at liquidation instead. Check the reports in order rather than reading one screen in isolation.

No. Price Ridge cannot influence CBP review times or Treasury disbursement, and any firm promising to is worth avoiding. CBP has indicated valid refunds are generally issued within 60 to 90 days after a declaration is accepted, absent a compliance concern requiring further review. What we can do is help you read the CAPE claim and ACE report status accurately, spot the fixable problems that actually cause delay, and identify whether a rejected entry, a validation error, or missing ACH enrollment is holding things up.

CBP's stated expectation is 60 to 90 days from acceptance of the CAPE Declaration for valid refunds, including statutory interest. That clock starts at acceptance, not at upload, and it does not apply to every entry. Entries that are extended, suspended, or otherwise under review retain their liquidation status, with validated refunds issued at liquidation instead. Volume matters too, since CBP reported roughly 50,000 rejected submissions in the program's first month, largely from filer or importer-of-record mismatches, invalid entry numbers, and incorrect CSV formatting.

A refund that does not match your expectation is not automatically an error. Refunds are consolidated by importer of record, or by the party designated on CBP Form 4811, so one deposit may cover a batch of entries rather than a single one, and principal and interest are reported separately. A status of Funds Diverted means the money was applied against an existing bill before release, while Check/ACH Returned points to incomplete ACH enrollment. Use REV-615 to match refunds back to specific entry summaries before assuming something was miscalculated.

Use the official ACE Portal directly and treat unsolicited outreach with suspicion. CBP has issued a public warning that fraudsters are using email, notices, and social media to solicit company information from importers and interfere with the IEEPA refund process. No legitimate party needs your ACE credentials to check status. Confirm the address before entering anything, and be cautious with any third party requesting portal access rather than working from reports you run and share yourself.

CAPE is being deployed in phases, so entries excluded today may become eligible later. Phase 1 opened April 20, 2026 for certain unliquidated entries and entries liquidated within the preceding 80 days; Phase 2 followed on June 29, 2026, adding reconciliation-flagged entries where no type 09 entry has been filed. Phase 3, covering finally liquidated entries, has been the contested piece: the government appealed in June 2026, and a July 17, 2026 CIT order directing reliquidation of entries liquidated more than 80 days applies only to importers that filed suit at the Court of International Trade. Categories such as drawback claims, entries under open or suspended protest, certain AD/CVD entries subject to liquidation instructions, Type 08 USMCA duty deferral, and Chapter 98 lines have been outside initial scope, and warehouse entry types 21 and 22 stopped being accepted as of July 7, 2026. Post Summary Corrections cannot be used to seek IEEPA refunds. Because liquidated entries carry a 180-day protest window under 19 U.S.C. 1514, treat this as a clock rather than an open-ended process, and confirm current scope against CBP's IEEPA Duty Refunds page and the latest CSMS messages.