Your supplier got the tariff refund. Ask for yours.
In 2025 suppliers added ‘tariff surcharge’ lines to invoices. Then the tariffs were voided and importers got refunds. Passback finds every surcharge you paid and asks for it back, politely, in your own name.
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Gets back the ‘tariff surcharges’ your suppliers billed, now that their tariffs were refunded.
Thousands of suppliers billed a ‘tariff surcharge’ in 2025. The Supreme Court then voided those tariffs, and the US has repaid importers more than $100 billion. Passback reads your invoice history, finds each surcharge a supplier may have recovered, and sends a polite credit request from your own AP team.
- Step 01
Reads every invoice for tariff lines
Connect your AP system or upload 2025-2026 invoices. Agents sort each line: tariff surcharge, tariff-cited price rise, freight or ordinary price increase.
- Step 02
Checks who got the refund
For each supplier: is it the importer of record, has it filed for or announced refunds, and what does your contract say about passing them on?
- Step 03
Asks for the credit, in your name
A claim file per supplier and a polite credit request your AP team signs. If a supplier disputes it, we stop and hand the file to your lawyer.
Built for finance and AP leads at US mid-market buyers.
The surcharge clawback audit
Every tariff surcharge and tariff-cited price increase you paid in 2025-2026, matched to the supplier who billed it.
A claim file per supplier
Importer-of-record status, refund evidence, the contract clauses that apply and the claim math per entry period.
Credit requests and follow-ups
Polite requests your team signs, follow-ups, and a dashboard of open and won claims. Disputes get a memo for your counsel.
First up: A free surcharge scan: upload a year of invoices and see the total of tariff lines you paid.
The world just changed.
What changed, and where it was reported.
The US had refunded more than $100 billion of IEEPA tariffs to businesses, about 60% of what it owes importers. Only the importer of record can get money from CBP.
CBS NewsAfter Learning Resources v. Trump, downstream buyers recover through contract, unjust enrichment and the UCC. Itemized tariff surcharges and supplier notices citing tariffs are the key evidence.
Jones WalkerCarter Ledyard: a B2B buyer who paid tariff surcharges to a supplier acting as importer of record may have a claim to a share of its refund. So far, claims are retail class actions, not B2B.
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One person and 4 AI agents.
The agents, all day
- Classifying invoice lines
- Tracing importers of record
- Reading contract clauses
- Drafting credit requests
- Tracking supplier replies
What a person does
The owner signs each client’s audit agreement, and a licensed customs broker reviews our refund-status logic. Any claim a supplier disputes goes to a commercial-litigation firm you hire directly, under that firm’s own engagement letter.
Asking a supplier to credit back a ‘tariff’ surcharge it has since recovered is ordinary reconciliation by your own agent. Passback never claims without your invoice evidence, never threatens a suit, gives legal advice or shares legal fees, and stops at the first dispute.
Will every supplier pay?
No. Where there is no surcharge line or contract clause, there is no general duty to pass a refund on, so many requests will be refused. You see every claim file before anything is sent.
Will asking hurt our supplier relationships?
It can, so you choose. Every request is polite, commercial and signed by your own AP team, and you can leave any supplier off the list.
What happens if a supplier says no?
We stop. The claim file and an escalation memo go to a commercial-litigation firm you hire directly. We never threaten a suit ourselves.
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