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What It Is

Global Tariff Refund provides refund eligibility assessment and recovery services for companies that imported goods into the United States and paid IEEPA tariffs between April 2025 and February 2026. The site emphasizes that refunds are not issued automatically: the importer of record or its licensed customs broker must submit a CAPE Declaration through CBP’s ACE/CAPE module.

Core Features and Workflow

This is not a typical horizontal SaaS product, but rather a tariff compliance professional service combined with a data-processing workflow. The service includes verifying IOR status, parsing ACE entry data, identifying Chapter 99 HTS codes, quantifying refund exposure for each tariff line, and coordinating CAPE filings with the client’s existing customs broker. For older liquidated entries, it brings in attorney partners to handle protest or litigation strategies. It also tracks CBP acceptance, statutory interest, and ACH disbursement, then reconciles refunds against the original entry summaries to create an audit trail that CFOs and legal counsel can review.

Pricing and Trial

The website does not disclose plans, subscription fees, success-fee percentages, or minimum project thresholds. It only states that users can submit their name, business email, and company name to receive a confidential assessment with no obligation. Before procurement, buyers should confirm the fee model, whether fees are based on a percentage of recovered amounts, whether unsuccessful cases are charged, and whether attorney fees are billed separately.

Collaboration, Security, and Integrations

The text indicates that it works with customs brokers, trade counsel, and attorney partners. Data sources include ACE ES-003 exports and CF-7501 entry summaries. On security, it mentions secure upload, confidentiality, and the ability to sign an NDA, but does not disclose details such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, access controls, data retention, or encryption. It also does not provide an API, developer documentation, or self-hosting options.

Pros, Cons, and Ideal Users

Its strengths are a focused approach to time-sensitive, high-value, complex compliance scenarios, end-to-end execution from eligibility assessment to refund tracking, and suitability for companies with multiple customs brokers and a large volume of entries. Its drawbacks are a narrow scope, dependence on CBP, customs brokers, and IOR status, and limited transparency around pricing and productization. It is best suited to U.S. importers with more than $1 million in annual import volume, significant potential refunds, and no in-house customs legal team.

Access from China

Information on access from mainland China, payment methods, and local alternatives is not disclosed. If China-based export-related companies are not the U.S. importer of record, they need to confirm whether they are eligible to file in their own capacity; otherwise, the matter is typically handled by the U.S. importer, carrier, or customs broker.