TariffIQ™: AI-Powered IEEPA Tariff Refund Analysis

TariffIQ™ performs four core functions: (1) CAPE Phase Mapping — screens your entry history against Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 eligibility criteria based on liquidation status, entry type, and reconciliation filing status. (2) HTS Code Validation — identifies IEEPA-specific Chapter 99 HTS codes (9903.01.xx and 9903.02.xx) on your entries and flags any coding issues that would cause CBP to reject your Declaration. (3) Refund & Interest Modeling — calculates your recoverable IEEPA duties plus statutory interest under 19 U.S.C. § 1505, providing a CFO-ready financial model with timeline scenarios. (4) Filing Sequence Analysis — identifies the correct order of operations for your specific entries, including the Type 09 sequence risk for Phase 2 reconciliation entries and warehouse withdrawal requirements post-July 7, 2026.

Alex Monroe is The Tariff Bureau's AI trade analyst persona, powered by TariffIQ™. Alex is available 24/7 on tariffbureau.com for instant IEEPA eligibility questions, CAPE phase guidance, and refund estimates. Alex communicates in plain English — not CBP jargon — and routes complex situations to our human advisory team. Alex Monroe is an AI assistant, not a licensed customs broker or attorney. Responses are informational only and do not constitute legal, customs, or financial advice. For entry-specific filing guidance, your licensed customs broker who filed your original entry summaries is the appropriate party for ACE submissions.

The Tariff Bureau's intake process is built on TariffIQ™. When a client submits a free assessment at tariffbureau.com/assessment, TariffIQ™ screens the provided import profile against CAPE eligibility criteria and generates a preliminary eligibility report. If the client proceeds, they complete a full engagement intake at tariffbureau.com/intake — providing entry details, IOR information, and licensing the DocuSign-executed NDA, Engagement Letter, and Terms of Service. TariffIQ™ then performs a deep entry analysis and generates the CAPE Declaration prep package, which is reviewed and delivered to the client's licensed customs broker for ACE submission.

The Learning Resources v. Trump ruling opened $166 billion in refunds across 330,000 importers. The CAPE refund program involves 53 million entry summaries, each with multiple HTS codes, liquidation dates, duty amounts, and filing status variables. Manual review of even a moderately complex import portfolio — say, 500 entries across 12 months — can take a licensed trade consultant 40–80 hours at $250–600/hour. With $71.06 billion already certified to Treasury, TariffIQ™ performs the same analysis in minutes, at a fraction of the cost, with a systematic approach that eliminates the human error responsible for the approximately 30% discrepancy rate identified in IEEPA filings industry-wide. The result: faster filing, higher accuracy, and more of the recovery flowing to the importer rather than advisory fees.