Actionable Insights
Tariffs are reshaping global markets and increasing pressure on costs, margins, and supply chain stability. Middle-market businesses must respond quickly and effectively. CBIZ Tariff Solutions offers integrated support in finance, tax, operations, and trade strategy, delivering actionable insights to help businesses make informed decisions and protect profitability.
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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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 impact pricing, sourcing, and compliance, allowing you to identify the most urgent vulnerabilities.
Start putting guardrails in place. 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 impact pricing, sourcing, and compliance, allowing you to identify the most urgent vulnerabilities.
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
Start putting guardrails in place. 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
We don’t stop at strategy. We help operationalize it with systems and models that evolve alongside shifting regulations.
- Create pricing models that absorb future rate changes
- Develop ongoing compliance processes
- Track regulatory changes and plan 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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Our integrated tariff team pulls expertise from several distinct areas within CBIZ.
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