How it works:
- Find. The agent reads the Chapter 99 lines on each CBP 7501 and flags every entry with IEEPA duty.
Place. For each flagged entry, it records what your records show: liquidation date, any protest, entry type, and whether a CAPE declaration was filed or accepted.
It notes which phase may fit, for your broker or refund firm to confirm.
It also flags entries where a surety paid the IEEPA duty, which CBP says to leave out of CAPE.
- Hold. Flagged entries stay out of every drawback claim until CAPE is settled.
- Release. Once an entry's CAPE question is settled, drawback can proceed on its other duty, computed on final liquidated duties. No duty dollar goes into both.
You get a list your broker or refund firm can act on. We don't file CAPE; you or your filing broker does.
The check is included in every drawback engagement at no extra charge.
Refund firms can register a client list and run it across the whole book.
- CBP CAPE guidance, via Troutman Pepper and Holland & Knight, 2026[1][2]
- 19 CFR 190.81[3]
- Duty Recovery AI pricing[4]
- How do you keep drawback from blocking my CAPE refund?
Written by the Duty Recovery AI team from the primary sources linked on this page.
Not legal advice. Duty Recovery AI is not a government agency.
Duty Recovery AI is software used by licensed customs brokers.
