A federal hearing is scheduled on CBP tariff-duty refunds.

The federal hearing and CBP testimony.

A federal hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, with testimony from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official, according to the initial case file . The Washington Post, citing an AP report, says that official is due to testify before a federal court on the US government's plans to refund tariff duties paid by importers before a Supreme Court ruling .

The newspaper presents the piece as an Associated Press report by Mae Anderson from New York . The report places the hearing in litigation concerning tariff-duty refunds following a Supreme Court ruling that found unlawful the imposition by Donald Trump of certain duties on goods from most other countries .

According to the initial case file, the dispute concerns the identity of those entitled to seek those refunds . That question is now being examined by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit .

The tariff duties covered by the Supreme Court ruling.

AP reports that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official is due to testify on Tuesday before a federal court on the US government's plans to refund billions of dollars in duties paid by importers before a Supreme Court ruling . According to AP, the Supreme Court held that President Donald Trump had unlawfully imposed certain duties on goods from most other countries .

Logistics Management states that the Supreme Court ruled in February against the legality of duties introduced under the International Economic Emergency Protection Act, or IEEPA . The same article states that the White House then used a 10% Section 122 duty, applied for a period of 150 days, in place of the contested measure .

The eligibility issue before the Federal Circuit.

The dispute described in the initial source article concerns the identity of the persons or entities entitled to seek refunds of tariff duties paid before a Supreme Court ruling . The same source states that this issue is now being examined by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit .

The article carried by the Washington Post and attributed to AP presents the case as a dispute over access to the refund-application process, using the wording "who gets in to apply is under dispute" in its headline . It also states that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official is due to testify on Tuesday before a federal court on the US government's plans to refund duty amounts paid by importers before the Supreme Court ruling .

CAPE, the ACE portal and the figures cited.

Logistics Management states that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection refund process took effect on 20 April through the CAPE electronic tool, for Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries . The same article specifies that CAPE allows claims to be filed through the ACE Secure Data Portal .

According to Logistics Management, CBP said that more than 330,000 importers had paid about $166 billion in IEEPA duties on more than 53 million entries . The outlet presents those amounts as linked to the duties covered by the refund process described in the article .

Logistics Management places this sequence after a US Supreme Court ruling delivered in February against the legality of duties introduced under the International Economic Emergency Protection Act, and before the expected expiry at the end of July of a Section 122 duty applied for 150 days .

The documentary limits of the file.

The file does not contain any Federal Circuit procedural document or transcript of the announced hearing; for this point, the available materials are limited to the initial source article and an AP report carried by the Washington Post . The amounts, volumes and dates linked to CAPE come from a Logistics Management article, which cites a refund process that took effect on 20 April, 330,000 importers, $166 billion and more than 53 million entries .