For Customs Brokers
File CAPE claims at scale.
Block 1 keyed by hand across hundreds of 7501s, a strict portal CSV that fails on a stray column, refunds that bounce silently if the ACH isn't authorized first. Corvant turns a stack of entry summaries into one validated, CAPE-ready declaration — across every importer in your book.
The CAPE filing, step by step
Five steps in the CBP portal. Each one a place to lose the claim.
Confirm filer standing
Only the original filer can submit — the importer of record, or the broker who filed the underlying entries. File for the wrong party and CBP rejects the declaration outright.
Authorize the refund ACH
Refund banking has to be authorized before the declaration goes in. Miss it and CBP can accept the declaration while the refund bounces silently — accepted on paper, nothing in the account.
Assemble the entries
One declaration covers up to 9,999 entries — and those entries can span multiple importers of record. That's the bulk-recovery lever, but only if the per-entry data is clean before it goes in.
Build the CSV
CAPE is web-portal only — not ABI. Brokers who automate through ABI have to switch tracks. The upload CSV is strict: exact header, one column, no extras, or validation fails.
Submit and track
Phase 1 is narrow — unliquidated entries or within 90 days of liquidation. Past that window the claim moves to protest. Knowing which entry sits where is the whole game.
How Corvant removes it
From a stack of 7501s to a CAPE-ready declaration.
The portal still needs you on the submit. Everything upstream of it — the keying, the formatting, the validation — is what we take off your desk.
Drag-drop the entry summaries
Drop your 7501s in. No manual keying, no spreadsheet rekeying across hundreds of entries.
AI extracts the entry detail
Entry number, HTSUS lines, country of origin, entered value, liquidation date — pulled and structured per entry, ready to validate.
Validated, CAPE-ready CSV
The exact column, the exact header, validated against CAPE's format before you ever touch the portal. Multiple IORs collapsed into one compliant declaration.
Full audit trail
Every extraction traceable to its source document. Per-entry detail stays inside your book — yours to review, never a public surface.
One pipeline, every player
Importer, broker, counsel, factor, accountant — working the same claims off the same timeline. When an entry needs litigation, we connect you to vetted IEEPA counsel. When an importer needs liquidity before the refund lands, we connect them to vetted factors against the real, verified face value of the claim — not a blind 70-cent offer from a stranger.
Walk through a filing, end to end.
30–45 minutes — drop in sample 7501s, watch the extract, see the validated CAPE CSV come out the other side, and how multiple IORs collapse into one declaration.