Here’s a fact that may cost you tens of thousands of dollars if you ignore it, or help you receive your IEEPA refund in the correct manner within the stipulated timeframe if you understand it: CBP stopped issuing paper checks on February 6th 2026, and if your company isn’t enrolled in ACE with the correct ACH banking information, your IEEPA refund application will likely be rejected even before it reaches a human reviewer. Don’t expect a call from the government, and do not expect an email, nor a letter. The rejection, however, will appear as an error code that may be found in an ACE dashboard that has never been logged into by your accounts payable department. In addition, by the time you realize what is going on, your place in the IEEPA refunds line will have been taken up by importers who had the foresight and diligence to fill out a form that you never even knew existed. If you are an importer looking to receive your IEEPA refunds, read on to find out just what this form is and what you need to do to safeguard your refunds after the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the collection of IEEPA refunds for the February 2025-2026 period.
Are you looking for a best IEEPA refunds attorney? Please call us NOW at (314) 481-63338 to learn more about your legal options for justice and compensation as they relate to IEEPA refunds and the process. McCready Law is proud to announce that we have joined forces with Frost Law Arizona to help corporations and businesses that were unlawfully levied duties against during the February 2025 to February 2026 period, and thanks to the Supreme Court ruling, the government was ordered to pay back all these duties to over 300,000 affected businesses across the country. Our strategic partnership means we are able to assess your claim, consolidate your entries via an in-depth forensic audit to discover just how much the government owes you, file protective orders on your behalf, and even litigate your claim in front of the Court of International Trade should the government become recalcitrant about processing your IEEPA refunds. We offer the forensic audit at NO CHARGE as well as a 100% FREE initial consultation phone-call, and we work efficiently and ensure all your valid entries are presented as a complete dossier to CBP and relevant authorities, leaving you to focus on more pressing business matters. Need assistance with IEEPA refund rejections or processing? Call us NOW at (314) 481-63338 to speak with an experienced attorney and tax experts at no cost to you.
ACH Refund Process for IEEPA Refunds – You’re Doing it Wrong
The numbers are indeed shocking and should cause mass shame to every trade association alleging to represent importers; according to CBP data from mid-April 2026, it is estimated that only a paltry 56,000 importers had the foresight to complete the ACH refund enrollment process despite the fact that over 330,000 businesses paid these IEEPA import duties. This essentially means that 83 percent of importers eligible for refunds have not provided information such as a bank account, and virtually all of them are at risk of being rejected once CBP starts processing their claims.
In addition, here’s why your customs broker cannot do this for you:
- The job of your customs broker is to pay your duties, file entries and make sure that your supply chain is moving. They are however not authorized to log into your ACE account using your credentials, enter your banking information and certify that you’re authorized to receive electronic refunds.
- Only the importer of record owns the ACE account, and while the broker has power of attorney authorizing them to file entries on your behalf, it doesn’t give them permission to change your banking information or enrolling you in refund programs
- In addition, the ACH refund authorization form is different from the ACH duty payment authorization form, and while many importers have authorized CBP to debit their accounts for duty payments, they have never authorized the agency to do the reverse, which is credit the account for refunds.
- Regardless of whether you use multiple brokers across different ports, the fact remains that you only have one ACE account; this has led to assumptions by brokers that another broker is handling the enrollment, leading to thousands of companies not currently being enrolled as they believe their broker has their back.
IEEPA Refunds – Don’t Guess, and Why This Could Attract Heavy Fines
The other important point you need to be cognizant of is that providing inaccurate information or even incomplete information due to innocent ignorance isn’t look at by the government as being a corporation making a mistake. Doing so under the penalty or perjury just because your ACE account isn’t properly configured may expose you to liability under the False Claims Act, which may lead to the imposition of damages treble your IEEPA refunds as well as civil penalties of approximately $15,000 to $20,000 per false claim.
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We know that all of this sounds scary, and you as a company CFO or comptroller want to make sure you get it right the first time. It’s for this reason that we have joined forces as McCready Law with Frost Law Arizona to help corporations that don’t know how to get started with the IEEPA refunds process. We offer 100% FREE consultations and forensic audits of your entries and accounts to ensure you have an exact number of how much the government owes you, file protective orders on your behalf and even litigate your claim should the government lock you out of refund compensation. If you imported goods from February 2025 to February 2026 and had to pay IEEPA duties, give us a call NOW at (314) 481-63338 so we can assess your import records at no cost and help facilitate the refund process on your behalf. Thanks for choosing us, and we look forward to helping you.