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<div class="last-updated">Last updated April 9, 2026</div>
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<h1>CAPE opens April 20. Your importers will flood your inbox April 21.</h1>
<div class="sub">Duty Reclaim is the AI agent that prepares your CAPE Declaration CSVs. Clean, validated, audit-trailed claims ready to upload through your existing ACE Portal account on day one. No new filing path. No new systems. You keep the client relationship. You keep the contingency.</div>
<p class="lede"><strong>What Duty Reclaim does:</strong> it ingests importer entry summary data, applies the CAPE Phase 1 eligibility rules, and outputs CBP-schema-compliant CSVs with a full reasonable-care audit trail. <strong>Your team still files with CBP</strong> through its existing ACE Portal account. Duty Reclaim never transmits to customs.</p>
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<h2>The context, in 90 seconds</h2>
<p class="section-sub">If you are a customs broker, the next 60 days are the largest duty refund processing event since the Section 301 wave. Here is what is actually happening, and where Duty Reclaim fits.</p>
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<h3>What is CAPE?</h3>
<p>CAPE (CBP Abbreviated Process for Entries) is the web-based refund portal U.S. Customs and Border Protection is launching on <strong>April 20, 2026</strong>, to process IEEPA-related duty refunds. CAPE bypasses ABI (the traditional EDI filing system) and accepts CSV uploads directly through the existing <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/trade/automated/getting-started" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ACE Portal</a>.</p>
<p>Phase 1 covers approximately 63% of impacted entries. Every licensed customs broker with an ACE Portal account can file CAPE claims on day one. No new certification or vendor status is required.</p>
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<h3>What is the IEEPA refund wave?</h3>
<p>On March 4, 2026, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that duties collected under IEEPA (the International Emergency Economic Powers Act) tariff actions must be refunded to importers. <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/document/guidance/csms-archive" rel="noopener" target="_blank">CBP published implementation guidance</a> over the following weeks.</p>
<p>Industry estimates put Phase 1 refund volume above $100 billion across millions of affected entry summary lines. Brokers who can prepare clean, validated claims at scale will own the refund processing work. Everyone else will be drowning in rejected CSVs.</p>
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<h2>The refund wave is going to break your ops team.</h2>
<p class="section-sub">Every broker running IEEPA-exposed importers is about to hit the same wall at the same time. Here is what the first 60 days look like if you file CAPE claims by hand.</p>
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<h3>Volume shock</h3>
<p>Importers will send every IEEPA-exposed entry your way the week CAPE opens. Thousands of line items per client. Your analysts will triage for weeks before the first filing goes out.</p>
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<h3>CSV rejections</h3>
<p>CBP's CAPE schema rejects anything malformed. One bad Chapter 99 code, one inconsistent entry summary, one missing field and the whole batch comes back. Manual fixes will eat the month.</p>
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<h3>Eligibility ambiguity</h3>
<p>Phase 1 covers 63% of impacted entries. Deciding which entries qualify is a rules engine, not a spreadsheet. Miss a qualifying entry and the importer blames the broker. File an ineligible one and CBP throws it out.</p>
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<h2>How Duty Reclaim works</h2>
<p class="section-sub">Duty Reclaim is the prep layer, not the filing layer. Your team stays in control. Your ACE Portal is the filing path. Duty Reclaim does the analyst work in 30 minutes instead of 20 hours.</p>
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<h3>Ingest entry summary data</h3>
<p>Connect your TMS or drop in CSV exports. Duty Reclaim pulls every IEEPA-exposed line item across all your importer accounts, normalizes the Chapter 99 codes, and reconciles duty paid against the March 4 CIT order.</p>
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<h3>Apply the CAPE Phase 1 rules engine</h3>
<p>The agent runs each entry against the published CAPE eligibility rules, tags qualifying and non-qualifying rows, and writes a reasonable-care audit note explaining every decision. Clean evidence chain for every claim.</p>
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<h3>Generate validated CSVs</h3>
<p>Out comes a CAPE-schema-compliant CSV that passes validation on the first upload. No rejections. No rework. The file is ready to drop into your ACE Portal's CAPE tab the moment CBP turns it on.</p>
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<h3>Human review and file</h3>
<p>Your team reviews the flagged edge cases in a queue, approves the batch, and uploads through your existing ACE Portal account. Duty Reclaim never touches CBP. You file. You own the relationship.</p>
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<h2>We built Duty Reclaim for brokers. Not around you.</h2>
<p class="section-sub">There is a rush of direct-to-importer players trying to skim the contingency off your clients. Duty Reclaim is not one of them. Duty Reclaim is a vendor to brokerages, and the economics only work if you win.</p>
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<h3>You keep the client relationship</h3>
<p>Your importer calls you, not us. Your invoice goes out under your brand. You collect the contingency fee. Duty Reclaim is the back-office tool your analysts run to turn 20 hours of work into 30 minutes of review. That is it.</p>
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<td>Who owns the client relationship</td>
<td>The vendor signs the importer</td>
<td>You do</td>
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<td>The vendor takes 15 to 30 percent</td>
<td>You collect 100 percent</td>
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<td>The vendor (or a partner broker)</td>
<td>You, through your ACE Portal</td>
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<td>Your clients belong to them</td>
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<p>We are onboarding five brokers before April 20. You get the full Duty Reclaim platform for 30 days while we tune the rules engine against your book. In exchange, we co-author a case study and you introduce us to two peer brokers when the wave settles.</p>
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<h3>What is Duty Reclaim in one sentence?</h3>
<p>Duty Reclaim is an AI data preparation agent that turns importer entry summary data into CAPE-schema-compliant refund CSVs that customs brokers file through their existing ACE Portal accounts. It handles eligibility analysis, schema validation, and reasonable-care audit trails, leaving the actual filing in the broker's hands.</p>
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<h3>When does CAPE launch?</h3>
<p>CBP has announced that the CAPE portal will go live in the existing ACE Portal on April 20, 2026. Phase 1 will cover approximately 63% of IEEPA-impacted entry summary lines at launch. Additional phases are expected later in 2026. Duty Reclaim is scoped to Phase 1 on day one and will expand as CBP releases additional phases.</p>
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<h3>Does Duty Reclaim file with CBP?</h3>
<p>No. Duty Reclaim is a data preparation agent. Your team uploads the final CSV through your existing ACE Portal account. Duty Reclaim never transmits to CBP. This keeps the broker license path clean and means you can start using Duty Reclaim without any CBP approvals, ABI vendor status, or new filing permissions.</p>
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<h3>How is Duty Reclaim different from Descartes or Caspian?</h3>
<p>Descartes shipped a CAPE module that builds CSVs once you have decided which entries are eligible. Duty Reclaim is the layer before that: the eligibility engine that decides which entries should be in the CSV in the first place.</p>
<p>Caspian and other direct-to-importer players compete with brokers for the contingency fee. Duty Reclaim is vendor-to-broker only. You keep the client relationship, the filing path, and the fee.</p>
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<h3>How does Duty Reclaim handle reasonable care and audit trails?</h3>
<p>Every decision the agent makes is logged with the underlying CAPE rule, the source data, and a plain-English rationale. If CBP challenges a claim six months from now, you have a complete evidence chain ready to hand over, linking every claimed refund back to the entry summary data and the eligibility rule that qualified it. This is the part most automation tools skip. For CAPE it is not optional.</p>
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<h3>Is MightyBot SOC 2 certified?</h3>
<p>Yes. MightyBot is SOC 2 Type II certified by an independent audit firm against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria for Security, Confidentiality, and Availability. The certification applies to the full MightyBot agent platform, including Duty Reclaim. A copy of the latest SOC 2 report is available to qualified broker prospects under NDA.</p>
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<h3>What data do you need from us to get started?</h3>
<p>Entry summary data for the IEEPA-exposed period, plus Chapter 99 code mappings. Most brokers can pull this from their TMS as a CSV export. Duty Reclaim handles the normalization and the rest of the enrichment. No schema mapping work on your end for the pilot.</p>
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<h3>Who built Duty Reclaim?</h3>
<p>Duty Reclaim is built on the <a href="https://www.mightybot.ai">MightyBot</a> agent platform. MightyBot does not use drag-and-drop workflow builders. You describe the policy in plain English, upload the source data, and the platform compiles a deterministic execution plan. That approach is how Duty Reclaim handles CAPE eligibility at scale without hand-tuning hundreds of edge cases.</p>
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<h3>What happens after the 30 day pilot?</h3>
<p>If Duty Reclaim recovered more refund volume for your clients than manual processing would have, we talk about a paid plan. If not, we shake hands and part ways. No auto-renewal, no lock-in, no surprise bill.</p>
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<p>Five design partner slots. First come, first served. If you file CAPE claims for importer clients, the next 60 days are the biggest refund processing window your firm will see this decade. Let's make sure you are ready on day one.</p>
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<h2>Built for regulated data</h2>
<p class="section-sub">Entry summary data, importer records, and CBP filings are sensitive. Duty Reclaim runs on infrastructure that meets the security bar regulated industries expect.</p>
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<p>MightyBot is SOC 2 Type II certified, following a successful audit by an independent firm. The certification confirms MightyBot meets the rigorous standards of Security, Confidentiality, and Availability required to process sensitive trade data including CBP filings, entry summaries, and importer records. Every data access is logged; every agent action is auditable end to end.</p>
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