Provide tariff refunds specifically for small businesses.

An amendment that would direct the Senate to provide tariff refunds specifically for small businesses.

Alsobrooks filed an amendment to direct the Senate to provide tariff refunds to small businesses.

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Congress.gov lists S.2777 as introduced on 09/11/2025, read twice and referred to the Senate Finance Committee, with Sen. Angela D. Alsobrooks as an original cosponsor. The official title says the bill would exempt small business concerns from duties imposed under the April 2, 2025 national emergency and refund small business concerns any such duties paid.

Alsobrooks backed a bill squarely matching the promise, but the official status shows only introduction and referral, not enactment.

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S.2777 - Small Business RELIEF Act, 119th Congress
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GovInfo bill text for S.3905 names Ms. Alsobrooks among the senators introducing the Tariff Refund Act of 2026, which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. The bill would require CBP to refund IEEPA duties with interest and includes small-business prioritization and outreach provisions.

Alsobrooks also backed broader tariff-refund legislation with small-business priority language, but it was referred to committee rather than enacted by the evidence date.

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S.3905 - Tariff Refund Act of 2026, Introduced in Senate
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Alsobrooks' Senate office said that during vote-a-rama she also filed an amendment that would direct the Senate to provide tariff refunds specifically for small businesses.

This is direct evidence of a concrete same-term effort on the exact promise, but the press release describes a filed amendment, not an adopted or enacted refund program.

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The Senate Small Business Committee release says lawmakers asked CBP to use existing records to automatically refund small businesses, and states that American small businesses had yet to receive their tariff refund following the Supreme Court decision. It lists Sen. Angela Alsobrooks as a co-signer.

Alsobrooks joined oversight pressure for automatic small-business refunds, while the same official source indicates the refund promise had not yet been fulfilled at that point.

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Ranking Members Markey, Wyden, Shaheen, Senate Democrats Call for Automatic and Swift Tariff Tax Refunds, Real Relief for Small Businesses and Families
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The CBP notice says CAPE would launch April 20, 2026 in the ACE Portal to provide an electronic path for valid IEEPA duty refund claims. It says importers and brokers may file Phase 1 refund requests, but Phase 1 excludes some categories including entries for which liquidation is final.

CBP created a general IEEPA tariff-refund mechanism during Alsobrooks' term. Because it is not specifically a small-business refund program and is only Phase 1, it supports partial delivery at most.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Trade User Information Notice: CAPE Phase 1
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The Supreme Court held that IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs. A dissent noted the United States may be required to refund billions of dollars to importers who paid the IEEPA tariffs.

The court ruling created the legal basis for broad tariff refunds, but it did not itself establish a small-business-specific refund program attributable to Alsobrooks.

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