Actionable Insights
Tariffs are reshaping global markets, putting pressure on costs, margins, and supply chain stability. Middle-market businesses must respond quickly and decisively. CBIZ Tariff Solutions delivers integrated support across finance, tax, operations, and trade strategy, delivering actionable insights to help businesses make informed decisions and protect profitability.
Recent developments tied to tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) may create refund opportunities for certain importers. requiring your C-suite to consider customs, tax implications, accounting, audit, and more. CBIZ closely monitors developments and helps businesses evaluate eligibility, prepare documentation, mitigate liability risk, and position themselves to act as guidance evolves.
Tariff Refund Options
Tariff Refund Services
From financial modeling to supply chain restructuring, we connect tax, sourcing, and pricing considerations so you can act with clarity instead of reacting under pressure. Our team will:
- Review import data to help identify potentially eligible entries
- Evaluate claim data for accuracy and completeness
- Assess documentation requirements before submission
- Coordinate with customs brokers and other involved parties
- Support vendor and supplier discussions when tariff costs were passed through
Beyond Refunds – Accounting, Tax and Transfer Pricing Services
- Evaluate existing transfer pricing arrangements within your multinational group to determine if the model yields optimal results
- Determine the tax treatment and accounting implications of refunds and plan for year-end purposes now
- Make updates to internal accounting and tax systems to reflect the impact of refunds
- Identify potential sales tax refund opportunities tied to an increased taxable base
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Navigating Tariffs: Potential Impacts of the Recent Supreme Court Ruling
Tariffs are reshaping the global business environment, and the pressure on costs, supply chains, and margins is real. Join CBIZ’s cross-disciplinary team for a timely discussion on practical steps middle-market business can take now to respond to new and proposed tariffs.
Protect Your Position
Tariffs may be unpredictable, but your response doesn’t have to be. CBIZ helps businesses build systems that respond to change with clarity, not confusion.
From financial modeling to supply chain restructuring, we connect the dots across tax, sourcing, and pricing so you’re prepared to act, not forced to react. This isn’t about staying ahead of every policy shift. It’s about having the right foundation in place to absorb disruption, protect your margins, and move quickly when the environment demands it.
Waiting increases exposure. Building resilience now puts you in a stronger position when the next shift comes.
The CBIZ Tariff Response Framework
Our Step-by-Step Tariff Response Plan
Understand your exposure. We analyze how tariffs affect pricing, sourcing, and compliance so you can identify priority risks.
Develop governance frameworks. We help reduce duty liability, restructure sourcing models, and align transfer pricing to lower exposure.
We build real-time tools to help your business stay alert and adapt quickly to new tariffs and trade policies.
Assess Impact
Understand your exposure. We analyze how tariffs affect pricing, sourcing, and compliance so you can identify priority risks.
Assess Now
Use data-driven insights to identify potential savings and risk-mitigation strategies.
- Quantify financial impact by SKU, vendor, or geography
- Map supply chain weaknesses
- Identify refund or exemption potential
Mitigate & Optimize
Develop governance frameworks. We help reduce duty liability, restructure sourcing models, and align transfer pricing to lower exposure.
Start Mitigating
Once we’ve identified where the risks are, we help implement practical steps to lower costs and reduce exposure moving forward.
- Apply duty drawback and bonded warehouse strategies
- Shift pricing structures to reduce taxable value
- Uncover state and local incentives for reshoring
Implement & Monitor
We build real-time tools to help your business stay alert and adapt quickly to new tariffs and trade policies.
Plan Ahead
Be ready as conditions evolve. We build tools and processes to help you track developments and respond quickly to new tariffs and trade policies.
- Pricing models designed to absorb future rate changes
- Ongoing compliance processes
- Regulatory tracking with planned corrective actions
Tariffs in Focus: How to Protect Margins, Manage Costs, and Plan Ahead
Tariffs are reshaping the global business environment, and the pressure on costs, supply chains, and margins is real. Join CBIZ’s cross-disciplinary team for a timely discussion on practical steps middle-market business can take now to respond to new and proposed tariffs.
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Connected Services
Our integrated tariff team pulls expertise from several distinct areas within CBIZ.
Tariff Refund Action
What’s Happened
The U.S. Supreme Court’s February 2026 decision overturning tariffs imposed by the Trump administration under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) creates significant refund opportunities for importers who paid now-invalidated duties. CBIZ is closely monitoring developments so businesses can understand the implications, prepare documentation, and act quickly as the process moves forward.
What to Expect
On March 12, 2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection filed a declaration with the U.S. Court of International Trade outlining its proposed tariff refund process. While this guidance is helpful, importers should anticipate further procedural updates and possible delays. Refund timing will depend on continued court oversight and government implementation. CBIZ is tracking the latest developments and recommended action steps so clients are prepared from day one.
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