How to Track Your IEEPA Refund in ACE

The CAPE portal has been processing entries since April 20. If your team filed, your entries are in the queue. ACH payments are scheduled to start as early as May 12.

CBP just released the ACE reports that let you watch a refund move from CBP through Treasury and into your account. Here’s what each one does and what to actually look at.

This is the master tracking report. It links CAPE declaration numbers, entry numbers, and refund numbers in one place, and it separates refund amounts into principal and interest. If you want one view of what’s filed, what’s assigned, and what you should expect back, start here.

Shows where your refund sits after CBP sends it to Treasury. There are four secondary statuses:

The last one is the one to watch. A rejected ACH means money that was approved and issued never reached you, because the banking information on your end wasn’t set up correctly. More on that in a second.

Builds on REV-603 with entry summary-level detail for declarations already sent to Treasury. If you want to drill down on a specific entry, this is the report.

Built specifically for catching rejected refunds. If REV-603 is showing Check/ACH Returned status, REV-613 is where you find the specifics. CBP also published a Replacement Refund Instructions guide. If you’ve had a rejection, that’s the document to follow.

IEEPA refunds are paid through ACH direct deposit. The banking setup on your ACE account has to be correct before the refund can land. If it’s not enrolled or the information is stale, CBP issues the refund, Treasury processes it, and it gets kicked back. You don’t lose the money. You lose time, and you go through a replacement process while every other payment is moving.

If you haven’t confirmed your ACH enrollment in ACE, do it now. May 12 is the start of actual payment processing.

CBP recommends scheduling recurring reports instead of running them on demand. You can set them to deliver to an email inbox, which cuts down on manual checks and reduces load on the ACE system. If your team is tracking entries across multiple clients, scheduled delivery is the cleaner approach.

For ACE Reports questions: [email protected]. For IEEPA refund questions: [email protected].

Our customs team at Premio runs these reports with clients every day. If you’re not sure how to set them up, whether your ACH enrollment is current, or where a specific declaration stands, reach out.

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