Apparel and textile importers
The new tariffs hit your category hardest. We get it back.
Garments, knitwear, footwear, and textiles already carried some of the highest baseline tariff rates in the U.S. code. The 2025 reciprocal tariffs stacked on top. Many apparel importers paid double-digit additional duties on every container. We build refund claims for apparel, knitwear, woven garment, and footwear importers.
What that extra layer cost your business
Stacked rates that were never legal in the first place.
Apparel from China came in with a layered tariff stack: the base rate, the older China tariff, and then the new charge on top. The new tariffs (formally, the ones imposed under IEEPA, the emergency-powers law) added a 10% baseline on imports from nearly every country starting April 2, 2025, with country-specific rates running to 50% or more. For apparel, already a high-duty category, that pushed effective rates well past 50% on many entries.
The Supreme Court ruled in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (February 20, 2026) that those new tariffs were never authorized. The older China tariffs stay. The steel and aluminum tariffs stay. But every dollar you paid in the new tariffs between February 4, 2025 and February 24, 2026 is potentially refundable, with interest.
Typical recovery range
Apparel claims usually run from tens of thousands into the mid-six figures.
The exact recovery depends on your import volume, country mix, and what you bring in. A $1M-a-year apparel importer sourcing primarily from China can easily see a low-six-figure refund once the refundable portion is stripped out. Larger importers with heavier exposure can see materially more. Smaller importers, even those with $200K to $300K of annual import value, frequently have claims worth pursuing.
Customs issues refunds as a single direct-deposit wire that includes interest accrued at the IRS rate while the government held your money. Interest currently runs 7% per year if you file taxes as an individual or pass-through and 6% if you file as a corporation (Q1 2026 rates).
What we do
Done-for-you, end to end. You don't log into anything.
We pull your entry data, isolate the refundable duty on each shipment, and confirm what qualifies under the current refund window. We build the claim and file it through the government's refund portal. We monitor the queue and keep you posted at each stage. When the refund wire lands, our contingency fee comes out of the recovery. Never up front, never out of pocket.
We've worked with apparel importers across knitwear, woven garments, and footwear. We know how the new tariffs stacked on top of existing rates for your category. We know what Customs wants to see in a clean filing.
What's not refundable
The older China tariffs on apparel are not part of this refund.
We want to be straight with you: the long-running China tariffs, in force since 2018–2019 and applied to many apparel imports, are still active and not affected by the Supreme Court ruling. Same with the steel and aluminum tariffs and the 2026 surcharge that came in February. The refund is for the new, struck-down tariffs only. For most apparel importers from China, that's still a substantial number. For importers from countries hit only by the new reciprocal tariffs, it can be the bulk of what they paid.
Find out what your apparel business can recover.
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