CAPE open·Phases 1 & 2 live
For CBP-licensed customs brokers
$28.7B in recon entries became fileable June 29. Your clients need a broker — be theirs.
License Protection
The platform is engineered to keep your 19 CFR Part 111 customs broker license clean while generating a new revenue stream on historical IEEPA filings. Two distinct commercial relationships, per 19 CFR § 111.36(b):
Relationship 1
Importer contracts Tariffi directly for data-preparation software. Tariffi charges a contingency software fee on recovered Treasury capital. This is B2B SaaS revenue — not customs-business revenue, not a broker fee.
Relationship 2
Tariffi pays you a flat per-filing filer integration fee from our corporate operating account. Standard B2B marketing-commission accounting. You never touch client duty funds; we never inject ourselves into a customs-business fee split.
The compliance shield: if CBP audits you on § 111.36(b) kickback lines, the answer is narrow and defensible — “I receive a flat per-filing filer integration fee from Tariffi’s operating account — not a percentage of any client’s Treasury refund.”
Tariffi prepares IEEPA refund data — nothing else. We never clear freight. We never solicit your clients for entry-filing work. We never touch ABI. You download the validated CAPE CSV from our broker portal, review it, and upload it to ACE under your own license and filer code. Your day-one client relationship is untouched.
You earn a flat filer integration fee for each CAPE filing you review and transmit. Not a percentage of the refund. Not a revenue share. Structured to comply with 19 CFR § 111.36, which prohibits brokers from sharing customs-business fees with unlicensed parties.
Client onboarding, ACE ES-003 ingestion, HTS validation (6-digit AI guidance per H350722, your final 10-digit call), UEV calculation, 9,999-entry chunking, CAPE declaration formatting. You get a clean, validated CSV ready for ACE upload.
Your clients are comparing CAPE quotes in public. With Tariffi you tell them the filing costs them nothing from you — Tariffi pays your flat per-filing filer fee (19 CFR § 111.36(b)), and their only cost is Tariffi’s disclosed contingency.
Upload One Master ES-003
Filtered to your filer code, covering every client. We group by IOR and surface every eligible importer in your book in minutes — no PDFs, no broker-specific CSVs.
We Prepare The CAPE Declaration
HTS validation (6-digit AI-assisted, your final 10-digit call per H350722), UEV calculation, 9,999-entry chunking.
You Review + Download The CSV
Log into your Tariffi broker portal. Download the 4-column CBP ACE CSV. Verify entry count + HTS codes.
You File Via Your Own ACE Portal
Upload the CSV to ACE under your license and filer code. Confirm transmission. You earn a flat per-filing fee.
The opportunity
$166B+
Eligible refunds
Total IEEPA duties paid 2022–2026 — your clients' money sitting in Treasury
$28.7B
Phase 2 reconciliation entries
Became fileable June 29 — new inventory across your entire book of clients.
80-day
Per-entry filing clocks
80-day CAPE window plus 180-day protest deadline — every week strikes entries from your clients' books. CBP flags data-error rejections ('UNABLE TO CALCULATE DUTY' leads the list); accurate prep is the whole game.
19 CFR Part 111: You exercise responsible supervision (§ 111.28) and maintain accuracy standards (§ 111.29) on every filing. Tariffi provides data; you make the filing judgment.
19 CFR § 111.36: Your fee is a flat filer integration fee paid by Tariffi from its own revenue pool. It does NOT come from the importer’s contingency fee, and it is NOT a percentage of any customs-business revenue. Two separate commercial relationships, two separate fee streams.
CBP Ruling HQ H326926: Confirms the boundary between licensed customs business (your domain) and data-preparation services (ours). The LPOA is between the importer and you directly —Tariffi is not a party.
CBP Ruling HQ H350722: AI/OCR platforms may suggest HTS at the 6-digit HS level. Tariffi’s platform caps classification guidance at 6 digits; all final 10-digit HTSUS determinations are your call. If our suggestion and your judgment differ, we hold — we do not file.
Broker FAQ
No. Your license, your ABI transmission, your ACE portal. Tariffi prepares the CAPE-formatted declaration data and broker-review artifacts; you sign and transmit. Per 19 USC § 1641 and CBP Ruling HQ H326926, only a licensed customs broker may conduct customs business — and Tariffi is not one.
Tariffi works like a drawback specialist — focused on historical refund recovery, never daily freight clearance — but for IEEPA CAPE refunds, not 19 USC § 1313 drawback. Two important differences:
No. Our scope is limited to IEEPA refund filings under the CAPE program. We do not offer daily customs entry services, freight forwarding, or drawback outside IEEPA. Every broker partnership is governed by a contractual non-solicit covering referred importers. If a referred importer wants to consolidate their daily brokerage with us, we decline and refer them back to you.
The broker of record signs and transmits, which under Part 111 puts you on the hook at CBP. Three mitigants:
No. Each broker partner has an isolated tenant — you see only the CAPE filings assigned to your filer code. No cross-broker visibility, no aggregated client lists. Tenant isolation is enforced at the database layer with role-scoped access and audit logging.
We dedupe at the entry-number level before your CAPE CSV is generated, so you never transmit a duplicate declaration under your filer code. NCBFAA has warned about duplicate filings when multiple brokers file for one importer of record — entry-level deduplication is how the platform keeps your transmissions clean.
We automatically flag type 21/22 warehouse entries (rejected by CAPE effective July 7, 2026 — CSMS #69127837) and keep type 31/32/34/38 withdrawals in the fileable set. You never transmit an entry type CAPE will bounce.
Tariffi is purpose-built for the IEEPA refund opportunity created by the Supreme Court ruling and CBP’s CAPE rulemaking — a finite specialty. If that window closes without a follow-on tariff-refund program, we wind down refund operations. We do not pivot into daily freight or entry filing. Your client’s broker is you, before IEEPA and after.
Verify your filer code, upload your master ES-003, and see your portfolio value — no account needed until you’re ready.
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