Tariff Recovery &
Trade Compliance Resources
Practical guides for identifying tariff exposure, building customs records, evaluating refund pathways, managing current tariff measures, preserving procedural options, and connecting operational questions to the permanent public record.
Use one live status page for changing facts.
CAPE functionality, litigation, tariff implementation, agency instructions, and active trade measures can change. Current developments are maintained separately so the guides below can remain focused on durable process.
What are you trying to determine?
The site is organized by task. Start with the question you actually need answered.
What changed?
Current tariff, CAPE, refund, agency, and litigation developments.
Current Updates → 02 RECOVERYCan these tariffs be recovered?
Match entry status to CAPE, protest, court, or specialized review.
Refund Guide → 03 DATAWhere are the affected entries?
Build the entry universe from ACE, broker, liquidation, and payment records.
ACE & CAPE Guide → 04 MANAGEMENTHow do we run the project?
Establish ownership, workstreams, controls, escalation, and closeout.
Action Plan → 05 CURRENT COMPLIANCEWhat current tariff treatment applies?
Work the 2026 Section 301 forced-labor tariff action by economy and product.
Section 301 Guide → 06 RESEARCHWhat is the underlying public record?
Research tariff history, authority, government action, courts, nations, and economics.
Tariff Public Record →Build the entry file. Then choose the pathway.
ACE & CAPE
Identify entries, liquidation status, duty amounts, and current CAPE treatment.
02 CLASSIFYRefund Guide
Sort entries into the appropriate recovery lane.
03 CONTROLAction Plan
Assign owners, priorities, deadlines, and project controls.
04 ADMINISTRATIVECBP Protest
Determine whether a protestable decision and valid protest route exist.
05 JUDICIALCIT Roadmap
Analyze jurisdiction, finality, court orders, and judicial relief.
06 SPECIALIZEDFederal Monetary Claims
Issue-spot specialized monetary theories only after customs jurisdiction is analyzed.
Separate active compliance from expired tariff programs.
A historical tariff can still matter to old entries without remaining a current tariff.
2026 Section 301 Tariffs
Current compliance guide for the Section 301 action concerning forced-labor import prohibitions across 60 investigated economies.
- Economy and rate
- Product exemption
- MFN interaction
- Section 232 exclusion
- Entry timing
- Broker instructions
Section 122 Temporary Surcharge
Documentary record of the temporary 10% surcharge that applied during the February–July 2026 period.
- Proclamation 11012
- Statutory authority
- Covered period
- Exceptions
- Section 232 interaction
- Expiration
Section 122 Compliance Record
Reconstruct how an entry was treated while the temporary surcharge remained in effect.
- Entry date
- HTS and Chapter 99
- Exception status
- Section 232 treatment
- Amount paid
- Accounting record
Authority explains why the pathways differ.
Learning Resources v. Trump
Understand the Supreme Court's IEEPA tariff holding and what the decision did—and did not—resolve.
Decision Guide → HISTORYU.S. Tariff History Guide
Follow American tariff authority from the founding era through the modern statutory system.
History Guide → AUTHORITYTariff Power & Authority
Connect Article I, statutory delegations, executive action, and judicial review.
Authority Library →Different teams need different parts of the record.
Build the customs record.
Entry numbers, HTS, Chapter 99, origin, liquidation, broker, CAPE, protest, and tariff programs.
Follow the money.
Duty paid, refund principal, interest, ACH receipts, accounting, customer allocation, and unresolved differences.
Control the portfolio.
Exposure, deadlines, priorities, recovery, current compliance, cash flow, and risk.
Connect procedure to evidence.
Government decision, protest history, jurisdiction, claimant, filing period, court record, and relief.
Guides tell you what to do. The Library shows the record.
The Tariff Public Record preserves durable historical, statutory, governmental, judicial, economic, nation-specific, and recovery materials.
Use it when the question moves from “what should I do?” to “what source establishes this?”
Enter The Tariff Public Record →Use the public resources first. Engage support when the record becomes company-specific.
Federal Claims Advisors provides tariff recovery operations, trade compliance support, strategic trade advisory, research, and professional coordination.
Current facts.
Durable guides.
Permanent record.
FederalClaims.us provides public educational and research resources concerning tariffs, customs procedures, federal trade measures, recovery pathways, and public records. Government instructions, tariff measures, litigation, and procedural requirements can change. Verify current primary authority before taking deadline-sensitive action. Federal Claims Advisors, LLC provides advisory and related professional services only through an applicable engagement. Legal representation, customs brokerage, tax advice, accounting work, and other licensed professional services remain separate.