Recovery Explainers
Clear answers to complex tariff recovery questions
Tariff recovery can involve customs records, supplier pricing, commercial relationships, customer obligations, and terminology that is not always easy to interpret.
PTR Recovery Explainers break down the concepts behind the recovery process in plain language to help business teams understand the issue, identify the records that may matter, and know what questions to ask next.
The Commercial Chain
Understand how tariff recovery works across the commercial chain
A customs transaction may tell you who imported the goods and who paid duties directly. It does not always tell you who ultimately absorbed the financial cost.
Tariff-related costs can move through suppliers, distributors, buyers, customers, pricing adjustments, and other commercial relationships before the economic impact reaches its final destination.
PTR explainers help separate those different roles and recovery paths.
Featured Explainers
Start with the questions that shape the recovery path
Importer of Record vs. economic burden
The Importer of Record is the party associated with the customs entry and responsible for the import transaction.
The business that ultimately absorbs the tariff-related cost may be different.
This explainer examines why customs status and financial burden should be evaluated separately when considering recovery.
Read the ExplainerDirect tariff recovery vs. supplier recovery
Direct recovery generally begins with customs-side activity and the records associated with the Importer of Record.
Supplier recovery looks at whether tariff-related costs were passed downstream through supplier pricing or other commercial charges.
This explainer shows how the two paths differ and why a business may have exposure to both.