Question 1

How much can we recover in overpaid duties?

Accepted Answer

Start with the Two-Week Assessment, which reviews your entries and returns a documented recovery figure you can take to the board. For a finance leader, that turns a vague sense of money left on the table into an evidenced number spanning IEEPA refunds, drawback, misclassification, and freight overcharges. Recovery work is estimate-and-file, so we size and pursue it, we never guarantee a dollar amount or that CBP accepts a claim. The assessment gives you the figure and the evidence behind it.

Question 2

How do I forecast duty as a P&L line item instead of guessing from broker invoices?

Accepted Answer

Forecast it from product-level data in Parts Library, which holds the current full tariff stack for every SKU and lets you model duty across sourcing scenarios for budget planning. For a CFO, that replaces last quarter's broker invoices plus a buffer with a forecast grounded in the actual rules, and Selection History keeps every committed scenario on record. Re-run the matrix when rates change. Treat figures as current as of their calculation date, since tariff policy moves quickly.

Question 3

What is the ROI of duty drawback for us?

Accepted Answer

Duty drawback recovers up to 99 percent of duties on imports later exported or used in US manufacturing, so the ROI turns on your export and manufacturing volume. We estimate the recoverable amount and track progress, and a specialist partner executes the filing, that split is deliberate. For finance, the Two-Week Assessment can size drawback alongside other recovery lanes so you see the number before committing. It is estimate-and-file, never a guaranteed recovery or a guaranteed CBP outcome.

Question 4

Section 122 vs IEEPA tariff refund: which recovery applies to us?

Accepted Answer

They are different recovery paths, and IEEPA refunds are the live opportunity, reclaiming IEEPA duties paid in 2025 after the 2026 Supreme Court ruling. For a CFO sitting on 2025 duty outlays, that is potentially trapped capital worth sizing now. Our IEEPA Refund service files the full package per entry, through Post Summary Correction, protest, or CIT complaint, this is the one filing we do. We are not a licensed broker and do not file customs entries, and no refund amount or acceptance is guaranteed.

Question 5

How do I find cash from tariff overpayments hiding in our numbers?

Accepted Answer

Run the Two-Week Assessment, which audits entries and duty payments to surface money leaking through wrong classifications, unclaimed refunds, and overcharges, then returns a documented recovery figure. For finance, the usual sources are IEEPA refunds on 2025 duties, drawback on qualifying exports, misclassification deltas, and freight-invoice overcharges caught by Freight Audit. We estimate and file, we do not guarantee the recovered amount. Misclassification deltas come with an HTS reasoning chain to support the filing.

Question 6

How do I give the board a tariff exposure number with evidence behind it?

Accepted Answer

Pull it from Parts Library, where exposure data already lives grouped and exportable, with a timestamped Selection History recording every decision behind each figure. For a CFO, that means a one-slide exposure-by-product-line summary without pulling compliance off their day job for a week. The audit trail is what makes the number defensible in the deck. Trade Advisory can pressure-test the strategy behind it, though that is senior trade guidance, not legal counsel, and exposure moves as rates change.

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