Which ACE reports should importers use to monitor CAPE refunds?

Use ES-022 for CAPE claim status, REV-603 for trade refund secondary status, REV-613 for ACH-rejected refunds, and REV-615 for CAPE-specific entry-level refund detail. ST&R's May 6, 2026 report, citing CBP's May 4 update, describes this as the practical report stack for monitoring IEEPA tariff refund claims after CAPE filing.

What does REV-603 show for a CAPE refund?

REV-603 is the Trade Refund Report. For CAPE refunds, ST&R reports that it can show Refund Secondary Status values after Treasury receives the approved refund claim, including Sent to Treasury, Treasury Issued, Funds Diverted, and Check/ACH Returned. Importers should use it after liquidation or reliquidation to understand whether the payment moved to Treasury, issued, offset against debt, or failed.

What should I do if REV-603 or REV-615 shows Funds Diverted?

Funds Diverted means CBP applied the refund against an existing CBP bill under 19 CFR section 24.72 before issuing any remaining balance. Pull the importer statement of account, identify the bill that absorbed the refund, and reconcile the entry-level detail in REV-615 against your CAPE submission log. The CAPE declaration may have been processed correctly even though no ACH deposit arrived.

Should I schedule recurring ACE reports for CAPE refunds?

Yes. ST&R's May 6 summary of CBP's update says CBP encourages the trade community to schedule recurring reports and have results delivered by email to minimize processing time and reduce missed status changes. For importers expecting the May 11 first disbursement wave, daily ES-022, ES-701, REV-603, REV-613, and REV-615 checks are reasonable during the first week.

CAPE Refund Monitoring Reports: REV-603, REV-613, REV-615 Guide

Q: What is REV-615 and how is it different from REV-603?

REV-615 is the Trade CAPE Detail Refund Report. CBP made it available effective April 20, 2026, and ST&R's May 6 report describes it as building on REV-603 by adding entry-summary-level detail associated with CAPE declarations that have been sent to Treasury. In practical terms, REV-603 is the broader refund history view; REV-615 is the CAPE-specific reconciliation view.

CBP’s May 4 update, summarized by Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg on May 6, turns CAPE refund monitoring from a two-report check into a fuller ACE reporting workflow. Importers should still start with ES-022 for claim status, but the refund trail now also runs through REV-603, REV-613, and REV-615 once a claim moves toward Treasury and ACH payment.

This guide is the consolidated report map. For the ES-022 and ES-701 basics, start with our earlier ACE claim-status walkthrough. Use this page when you need the broader finance and reconciliation view: Treasury status, failed ACH deposits, diverted funds, entry-level CAPE refund detail, and recurring report delivery.

CAPE refund monitoring reports REV-603 REV-613 REV-615 guide for IEEPA importers

Source: Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, “CBP Details Ways to Monitor CAPE Refund Claims,” May 6, 2026, citing CBP’s May 4 bulletin on monitoring IEEPA tariff refund claims filed through the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries (CAPE) system.

The Four-Report Monitoring Stack

The practical setup is not one report. It is a sequence:

Report	Best use	When to run it
ES-022	CAPE claim status by declaration and entry	Immediately after filing, then daily while claims are moving
REV-603	Trade refund status after Treasury receives the approved refund claim	After ES-022 / ES-701 indicate refund movement
REV-613	ACH-rejected refunds	Any time the refund is expected but did not arrive
REV-615	CAPE-specific refund detail at entry-summary level	For reconciliation against your CAPE submission log and finance records

Think of ES-022 as the operations report and the REV reports as the payment and reconciliation layer. ES-022 tells you whether CAPE accepted the claim. REV-603, REV-613, and REV-615 tell finance what happened after CBP moved the claim toward Treasury and ACH.

ES-022: Start With Claim Status

ES-022 is still the first report to pull after filing. It links the CAPE declaration to the entries in that declaration and helps you spot whether the claim is accepted, rejected, or stuck in a status that blocks refund processing.

Use ES-022 to answer three questions:

Did every CAPE declaration you submitted appear in ACE Reports?
Which entries passed CAPE validation and moved toward refund processing?
Which entries are rejected, accepted with errors, or otherwise missing from the refund path?

If ES-022 shows rejection or an error status, solve that first. A clean Treasury status later does not fix an entry that never made it through CAPE validation. For the status-by-status workflow, use the ES-022 and ES-701 guide.

REV-603: Read the Treasury-Level Refund Status

REV-603 is the Trade Refund Report. According to ST&R’s May 6 report, CBP identifies REV-603 as the place to monitor CAPE declarations after Treasury receives the approved refund claim.

The key field is Refund Secondary Status. For CAPE refunds, watch for:

Sent to Treasury: Treasury has received the approved refund claim.
Treasury Issued: Treasury has issued the refund.
Funds Diverted: CBP applied the refund against an existing bill before payment.
Check/ACH Returned: The refund was rejected, commonly because ACH refund enrollment was incomplete or incorrect.

This is the report that tells you whether the payment stage is moving. It does not replace ES-022, because it comes later in the chain. It also does not replace REV-615, because REV-615 gives the CAPE-specific entry-level view you need for reconciliation.

REV-613: Find ACH Failures Quickly

REV-613 is the ACH Rejected Refunds Report. If your team expected money to land and nothing arrived, REV-613 is one of the first places to look.

Run REV-613 when:

REV-603 shows Check/ACH Returned.
Your bank account did not receive a refund that your broker says was issued.
You recently changed ACH refund banking in ACE and want to confirm whether an older deposit failed.

If REV-613 shows a rejected refund, do not just resubmit the CAPE declaration. The claim may already be approved. The problem is usually payment data. Update the ACH refund information in ACE, document the fix date, and follow the replacement-refund process described in our ACH rejection guide.

REV-615: Use the CAPE-Specific Detail View

REV-615 is the Trade CAPE Detail Refund Report. CBP’s IEEPA Duty Refunds page says the report became available effective April 20, 2026. ST&R’s May 6 summary adds the practical point: REV-615 builds on REV-603 by providing entry-summary-level detail associated with CAPE declarations that have been sent to Treasury.

That makes REV-615 the report your finance or customs team should use to reconcile CAPE refunds against the submission log.

Use REV-615 to match:

CAPE declaration number
Entry summary number
Refund number
Refund principal
Refund interest
Refund secondary status
Any diverted or returned payment condition

For larger importers, REV-615 is also the best export to hand to accounting. It prevents a single ACH deposit from becoming a mystery lump sum that no one can tie back to entry-level duty payments.

How to Handle Funds Diverted

Funds Diverted does not necessarily mean CAPE failed. It usually means CBP applied the refund against an outstanding CBP bill before releasing any remaining balance, consistent with 19 CFR section 24.72.

If you see Funds Diverted in REV-603 or REV-615:

Pull the importer statement of account in ACE.
Identify the bill or debt that absorbed the refund.
Reconcile the diverted amount against REV-615 entry-level detail.
Give finance a written explanation that the CAPE refund was processed but offset before ACH payment.
If the underlying bill is disputed, handle that through the normal CBP debt-resolution process rather than trying to fix it through CAPE.

This matters because a diverted refund can look like a missing refund if the customs team only checks the bank account.

Schedule Recurring Reports and Email Delivery

ST&R’s May 6 report says CBP encourages the trade community to schedule recurring ACE reports and have the results delivered to an email inbox to minimize processing time. For importers with large CAPE filings, that is not a convenience feature. It is the control that keeps refund status changes from being missed.

During the first refund wave, consider this cadence:

Timing	Report cadence	Purpose
Before May 11	Daily ES-022	Confirm claims are not stuck or rejected
May 11 week	Daily ES-022 and ES-701	Watch entries move into liquidation or reliquidation
After refund movement appears	Daily REV-603 and REV-615	Confirm Treasury status and reconcile CAPE refund detail
If money does not land	Immediate REV-613	Check for ACH rejection

If your account supports scheduled delivery, route the reports to both customs/compliance and finance. CAPE refunds are not just a customs workflow once they reach Treasury; they become cash application, interest income, and audit-trail work.

Add Notify Party Fields to Entry Summary Reports

ST&R also notes that CBP says the notify party name and notify party number can be added to Entry Summary reports to identify notify party information.

This is especially useful when the refund recipient is not simply the importer of record. If a 4811 notify party is involved, your reconciliation file should show who is expected to receive the ACH deposit and which account owns the follow-up work.

At minimum, keep these fields together in your report exports:

Importer of record number
4811 notify party name and number, if used
CAPE declaration number
Entry summary number
Refund number
Refund principal and interest
Refund secondary status

That lets finance see whether an apparent missing payment is actually a payment routed to a designated party.

Do Not Let Reports Replace Protest Deadlines

The May 4 CBP update helps importers monitor CAPE refunds, but it does not change the legal backup strategy. ST&R’s May 6 article repeats the same caution trade attorneys have been giving throughout CAPE Phase 1: importers should not rely solely on CAPE.

Two reminders matter most:

The Department of Justice still has until June 6, 2026 to appeal the CIT order directing CBP to refund IEEPA tariffs.
Importers should continue monitoring liquidation dates and filing timely protests for affected entries, including entries accepted into CAPE and entries outside CAPE eligibility.

If an entry liquidated and the 180-day protest clock is running, do not let a promising ES-022 or REV-615 status lull the team into missing the deadline. Use CAPE, monitor the reports, and preserve the protest path where it applies.

A Practical Monitoring Checklist

Run ES-022 for every CAPE declaration submitted.
Run ES-701 for liquidation or reliquidation notices with refund and interest detail.
Run REV-603 once entries appear to have moved toward Treasury.
Run REV-615 for CAPE-specific entry-level reconciliation.
Run REV-613 immediately if the ACH deposit does not arrive.
Add notify party name and number fields where a 4811 party may receive the refund.
Schedule recurring report delivery to both compliance and finance.
Calendar protest deadlines separately from report monitoring.

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