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US customs agency says tariff refund system will be ready in 45 days - Business Insurance Skip to content Register for free Search Search Log In Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers US customs agency says tariff refund system will be ready in 45 days Risk Management Mar 6, 2026 (Reuters) — The U.S. customs agency is readying a system within 45 days to process refunds on U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs that were struck down as illegal, a customs official said in a court filing on Friday. The declaration by Customs and Border Protection official Brandon Lord came as government lawyers met with a federal trade judge to try to hammer out a broad settlement process, as Reuters reported exclusively, for returning $166 billion in tariff payments to around 330,000 importers. The tariffs that were a central part of President Donald Trump’s economic policy were struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court last month. However, the Supreme Court did not say how the collected tariffs should be refunded, leaving small importers worried the process would be expensive and time-consuming. “This new process will require minimal submission from importers,” Mr. Lord said in his declaration, which was filed with the U.S. Court of International Trade just as government lawyers began meeting with Judge Richard Eaton from the court. Judge Eaton called the meeting to discuss how the government will carry out his sweeping order issued on Wednesday directing the CBP to begin refunding tariffs to potentially hundreds of thousands of importers using the agency’s existing internal process. Judge Eaton said in his Wednesday order that he had been appointed by the trade court to hear the roughly 2,000 lawsuits filed by importers including FedEx and L’Oreal seeking refunds. Trade lawyers said those lawsuits were the tip of the iceberg, and thousands more were prepared to sue if the government failed to develop a system for automatic refunds. Affiliates of Nintendo and CVS became the latest large companies to sue for refunds on Friday. Mr. Lord said in the court filing that the customs agency expected importers to file a declaration with the CBP’s computer system known as ACE detailing tariff payments, which would then be validated before refunds are processed with interest. The importers would not have to sue. Each importer would receive a single payment from the Treasury Department, regardless of how many separate entries of goods the importer had made. Mr. Lord did not estimate how long it would take to process the refunds, but said the CBP would not be able to comply with Judge Eaton’s order from Wednesday. The judge contemplated refunds would be automatically returned to importers through the existing system without documentation or input from the importer. “Its existing administrative procedures and technology are not well-suited to a task of this scale and will require manual work that will prevent personnel from fully carrying out the agency’s trade enforcement mission,” Mr. Lord said in explaining why the agency could not use its existing system. He said importers had paid an estimated $166 billion in tariffs on more than 53 million shipments. Judge Eaton’s order would have required the agency to manually review paperwork on every shipment, a process Mr. Lord said would require more than 4 million hours of labor. However, Mr. Lord’s declaration also indicated that few importers had signed up for the CBP’s electronic system for refunds. Out of more than 330,000 importers who paid the illegal duties, only 21,423 signed up for the electronic refund system that went into place on February 6, according to Mr. Lord. Judge Eaton is overseeing a refund lawsuit by Atmus Filtration Inc, which the judge is using as a vehicle to order CBP to issue the refunds for all importers. 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