The Supreme Court ruling is settled. The refund portal is open. But getting your money out of a government system that was never designed to pay it back easily, even if it is legally owed to you — that's a different matter entirely. That's where we come in, our law firm fights for your refund.
The legal team handling your recovery is an AmLaw 200-ranked customs and trade law firm — among the most respected practices in US trade law, with the depth, knowledge, existing federal court relationships, and the institutional resources to pursue every dollar you're owed, including the 37% of entries that require litigation and that no broker can touch.
Tariff Recovery Group USA is a specialist intake and case-referral service — not a law firm. Our job is to find eligible importers, make sure they understand what they're owed, and connect them — correctly-assessed and fully-informed — to the legal team that will recover their full tariff refund that is legally owed to them by the government.
That legal team is an AmLaw 200-ranked US customs and trade law firm. From the moment the firm engages you, they take over entirely. Every filing, every protest, every CBP negotiation, every legal challenge, and every piece of litigation if it comes to that — handled by attorneys.
This two-entity model is deliberate. It means the legal work is done by people who are licensed, insured, privileged, and accountable — and that you get a specialist intake process that filters out weak cases and positions strong ones properly before they ever reach a desk at the firm. And the entire arrangement runs on pure contingency: the firm's fee is a percentage of what is actually recovered. If nothing is recovered, nothing is owed — not for attorney time, filings, or work. This ensures that their own interests are perfectly aligned with yours.
We identify eligible importers, explain the opportunity, assess your situation, and submit your case to our law firm's intake team. We are your first point of contact — and the bridge to your legal team. We do not provide any formal legal advice.
The firm is your attorney of record from the moment you engage. All strategy, filings, CBP communications, and litigation are theirs. Attorney-client privilege applies to everything from day one — meaning your full import history and classification strategy is legally protected, invisible to government auditors.
You authorize your customs broker to share your import entry records, review and sign the engagement agreement, and then step back. Your involvement from that point is minimal by design. Clients describe our process as surprisingly hands-off.
IEEPA tariff recovery is not standard legal work, this cannot easily be done by your typical local law firm, nor import broker. It sits at the intersection of constitutional law, customs and trade regulation, and CBP administrative procedure — and the barriers to doing it properly are high. Most of the operators who entered this space when the refund window opened are learning on the job, and they are likely using your claim as part of their learning curve. This is a real danger!
Our trade attorneys have been handling US Customs and international trade matters for over two decades. When the Supreme Court's IEEPA ruling came down, they were not scrambling like other firms. The CBP relationships, the CAPE filing protocols, the Section 1581 litigation pathway, and the infrastructure to run high-volume contingency recovery at institutional scale — all of it was already in place.
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⏱ Two minutesWithin 24–48 hours our intake team will review your details to confirm initial eligibility. If your profile suggests significant tariff exposure and recovery potential, we will contact you directly to schedule a brief call with our legal firm's trade tariff refund & recovery team.
⏱ 24–48 hoursYou authorize your customs broker to share your import entry records (ACE/ABI data) with our legal firm — your broker can typically provide this as a CSV export in one business day. The firm's attorneys then analyze every IEEPA-affected entry across your import history, identifying Phase 1 entries, finally liquidated Phase 2 entries, and total tariff recovery exposure, including accrued interest.
⏱ 1–3 business daysThe firm presents your estimated total recovery and the contingency fee terms. Upon signing the engagement agreement, you become their client. Attorney-client privilege applies to all communication from that point onward. No retainer, nor upfront payment of any kind.
⏱ Review and sign at your paceAttorneys handle every filing: CAPE Declarations for Phase 1 entries, formal protests and Section 1581 actions for Phase 2 entries, protective filings to preserve your rights against upcoming liquidation deadlines, and ongoing monitoring throughout the government's processing period. Your involvement from this point is minimal by design, while our lawyers do what is necessary to secure your full refund.
⏱ Filings completed usually within days of engagementGovernment processing typically takes 12–36 months. If you need working capital sooner, the firm's cash advance programme lets qualifying businesses access a significant portion of their estimated recovery within weeks of filing, while the firm continues to manage the full process until final disbursement — a valuable injection of working capital for your business while the government takes its time.
⏱ Advance available within weeks · Full recovery takes 12–36 monthsWhen you file a refund claim, you are not just asking the government for money. You are opening a window into your entire import history — every entry, every HTS code, every classification decision you have made. CBP knows this. The same administration overseeing your refund has publicly stated that 85% of customs entries reviewed showed classification issues, and has simultaneously announced aggressive post-refund audit programmes. Without attorney-client privilege, everything your filing reveals about you is fair game.
A customs broker has no privilege to offer you. Neither does a software portal, a DIY spreadsheet, or any non-attorney service. The moment they touch your filing, your classification strategy, your internal analysis, and your legal rationale are discoverable — by CBP auditors, by opposing counsel, and by anyone else who comes looking. That exposure is permanent. It cannot be reversed.
With Tariff Recovery Group USA, every communication, every document, and every strategic decision is protected from the moment you engage us and our affiliated legal firm. Not just the filing itself — everything. The analysis of your entries, the rationale behind each claim, your HTS reclassification strategy, your audit response preparation. All of it invisible to the government. That protection is not a nice-to-have. For any business with meaningful import volume, it may be the most important reason to engage legal counsel — independent of the refund itself.
Every communication, document, and legal strategy is protected. Your competitors won't know you filed. CBP cannot access your rationale. Your business is shielded throughout the entire multi-year process.
All filing data is visible to CBP. Your HTS classification history is exposed. Any audit triggered by your refund claim gives investigators direct access to your full import record. This risk is permanent and cannot be retroactively corrected.
Trade intelligence can be commercially sensitive. With privilege, your refund claim, its value, and your filing strategy remain entirely confidential. Non-attorney filings are subject to disclosure in ways that could expose competitive information.
The only businesses truly exposed to the risks on this page are those who have not yet filed. Every reason to wait is outweighed by the legal and financial cost of waiting.
Free assessment. Zero upfront cost. No win, no fee, no exceptions. The firm's attorneys handle everything — protected by attorney-client privilege from your first conversation.
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