CAPE IEEPA refund rejected — "ENTRY SUMMARY IS IN FINAL LIQUIDATION STATUS." Is a protest the only path once entries have liquidated? This is for my business and I’m not a customs broker. These are the remaining entries not included in Phase 1
Hoping someone here has run into this. I filed a CAPE IEEPA refund request for my business on a batch of entries and every one came back with the error "ENTRY SUMMARY IS IN FINAL LIQUIDATION STATUS."
When I pulled the liquidation reports in ACE (ES-701 Courtesy Notice and ES-702 Official Notice), all of the entries show as Liquidated with a "No Change" duty determination. A mix of Type 01 formal and Type 11 informal entries:
The Type 01 entries liquidated on the normal ~314-day cycle and show up in the official ES-702 notice.
The Type 11 informal entries liquidated only about 2–3 weeks after the entry date (essentially at release) and do not appear in ES-702.
My questions for anyone who's dealt with this:
Is it correct that CAPE simply won't process an IEEPA refund once an entry has reached final liquidation status, regardless of entry type? Also how is this our fault since Phase I started in April this year.
For entries still within 180 days of liquidation, is a protest (CBP Form 19 / e-protest) the only recovery route? Anything faster or cleaner?
For entries already past the 180-day protest window, is there any avenue left (e.g., CBP-initiated reliquidation under an IEEPA refund program, 1520(c), etc.), or is that duty just lost?
Anyone know if the informal (Type 11) entries liquidating almost immediately at release is expected behavior, and whether that effectively kills the CAPE refund path on those?
Completely lost as I’m not a customs broker and just looking to get back the IEEPA duty.