TariffGuru.com Launches Free AI Recovery Agent for Small Businesses Filing IEEPA Tariff Refunds

Los Angeles, California May 18, 2026 (EMWNews.com) – TariffGuru.com, a federal trade recovery consultancy, today announced the availability of a free AI recovery agent trained directly on CBP CAPE documentation, ACE portal protocols, Federal Register interest rate tables, and Court of International Trade court orders. The tool is available at no cost to any U.S. importer navigating the IEEPA tariff refund process.

The launch addresses a critical gap in the federal refund program. Of the estimated 330,000 small and medium U.S. importers eligible for a share of $166 billion in overpaid duties, the vast majority have no trade attorney, no in-house compliance team, and no institutional knowledge of the CAPE filing process.

“A common mistake importers make is assuming a standard broker CSV export or an Excel spreadsheet can be uploaded directly into the new federal CAPE portal,” said Omar El Adli, founder of TariffGuru.com. “The government’s validation engine enforces strict automated alphanumeric data syntax filters that reject raw data formats. TariffGuru.com was built explicitly to solve this fragmentation, acting as a local pre-validation utility that cleans and formats corrupted entry lines before they hit the federal gateway.”

The AI recovery agent answers questions in plain English about eligibility, entry formatting, ACH enrollment, Phase 1 exclusions, and statutory interest calculations. It is trained on the same source documents used by enterprise compliance teams, including CBP handbooks, Federal Register entries, and CIT filings, and is available without an account or login.

The tool is one of several free resources available at TariffGuru.com, alongside a CAPE pre-filing eligibility screener, a federal statutory interest calculator based on 19 U.S.C. 1505 and 26 U.S.C. 6621, a free filing guide, and a community knowledge base where importers submit real filing problems and verified solutions are published for all users.

Small and medium importers, defined as businesses with under $10 million in annual import volume, represent the majority of the 330,000 eligible filers and the segment filing at the lowest rate according to CBP data.

“The system is currently rewarding Fortune 500 companies and large trade law firms,” El Adli said. “Hopefully this helps level the playing field.”

The AI recovery agent is available now at TariffGuru.com.

About TariffGuru.com TariffGuru.com is a federal trade recovery consultancy based in Los Angeles, California, providing free and low cost tools to help small and medium U.S. importers recover overpaid duties under the IEEPA tariff refund program.