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Refunds don't announce themselves — deadlines do.

Under the IEEPA tariff regime, importers can reclaim certain duties through the CBP CAPE process — but only inside an 80-day filing window, after which the only path is a protest before the 180-day liquidation deadline. Miss both, and the refund is gone for good.

Our client, a jewellery manufacturer, relied on their accountant to file for what was owed back. The problem wasn't negligence — it was visibility. Refund eligibility is buried across a dozen different ACE report types, each with its own tariff lines, duty amounts, and liquidation dates. Without a system stitching them together, refundable entries simply blended into the noise. Money was expiring on the calendar, silently.

The CAPE Command Center.

We built a dashboard that turns raw ACE report uploads into a business-owner view of the entire refund universe: how much is refundable, what's been filed, what CBP accepted, what's been paid, and — critically — what still needs action before a deadline.

• Ingest the real reports. ES-003 line-tariff detail, entry headers, liquidation dates, CAPE declarations, refund and ACH files — bootstrapped automatically, no manual data entry.
• Classify every entry into one of 12 plain-English statuses. First match wins: Needs CAPE Filing, Needs Protest, Accepted – Awaiting Refund, At Risk / Likely Lost, and more.
• Document the principal — never estimate it. Unfiled refund amounts come straight from the ES-003 line tariff duty on refundable IEEPA HTS codes; filed and paid amounts reconcile to the penny across the CBP refund files.
• Surface deadlines as recommended actions. The Command Center leads with what's about to expire, so nothing sits unfiled while its window closes.

$167,000 that was about to disappear.

On the first ingest of the client's own data, the dashboard flagged $167,000 in refundable duty that had never been filed — entries still inside their CAPE window, invisible to the accountant, counting down toward the point of no return. Because the principal was documented from the source reports rather than estimated, the owner could act on the number with confidence, not caveats.

Mandatory e-filing met a manual process.

The CPSC now requires importers to e-file the supporting lab test report alongside the invoice for roughly 600 HTS codes flagged as likely subject to a mandatory safety standard. For each product, someone has to read the lab report, decide whether it actually supports a compliance Claim, or whether the rule doesn't apply (Disclaim A) or applies but isn't adequately tested (Disclaim B) — then assemble the filing.

Our client, a toy manufacturer, had a catalogue full of flagged codes and a hard deadline. Done by hand, the per-product reading and classification was slow, error-prone, and unforgiving: mislabel a children's product and you've created a compliance problem, not solved one. His team was working through it manually and tracking to blow past the deadline.

The CPSC eFiling Assistant.

We built a tool that reads the documents the way a compliance reviewer would, but in seconds — with a human kept in the loop on anything that matters.

• Read the source, not a guess. Extraction is 100% Claude Vision over the rasterized report and invoice — no OCR, no brittle text parsing, no keyword matching.
• Classify each product. Claim, Disclaim A, or Disclaim B, with a confidence score and a written rationale traced back to the exact page it came from.
• Gate the uncertain. A Type 1–5 field-routing model decides what auto-passes and what a human must confirm. Anything feeding a Disclaim decision is always human-gated — and a children's-category product can never be auto-assigned Disclaim B, a guardrail enforced in code.
• Produce the filing payload. Reviewed products roll straight into an exportable CPSC filing payload, ready to submit.

Minutes, with a review trail.

The manufacturer ran his flagged catalogue through the assistant and filed every flagged HTS code in minutes — comfortably ahead of the deadline his team had been on track to miss. Just as important, the uncertain products were flagged for review rather than silently guessed, so speed never came at the cost of a compliance mistake.

New tariffs, same manual process — at 8× the workload.

The team had run customs compliance the same way for years: a routine that took about 30 minutes a day. When the new tariff environment landed, that same routine ballooned to 4+ hours. Every entry meant logging into UPS, DHL, and FedEx portals by hand to pull documents, then reconciling each CBP Form 7501 against its commercial invoice and purchase order — a three-way match done line by line.

The volume made mistakes expensive: discrepancies were caught late or missed entirely, post-entry corrections were tracked from memory, and the whole thing lived in paper files, spreadsheets, and email threads.

Before and after Calypto.

Faster than before the tariffs ever hit.

What had grown into a 4-hour daily burden is back to roughly 30 minutes — and every entry now carries a full, searchable audit trail instead of living in someone's memory. Discrepancies surface the moment they appear, so nothing slips through to liquidation unnoticed.