Kimberly-Clark secures $45M tariff refund, half of what it paid in 2025
- Source
- Supply Chain Dive
- Source link
- https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/kimberly-clark-secures-45m-tariff-refund-half-of-what-it-paid-in-2025/827707
- Published
- 2026-08-13 13:30:00
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-14 16:54:52
- Category
- Procurement & Supply Chain News
- Geography
- US
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
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Procurement Relevance Gate
- commodity_or_input_impact (weight 12) — matched on "oil"
- regulation_sanctions_trade_controls (weight 12) — matched on "tariff"
- geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"
Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
- Initial Significance
- 2 · Moderate (35.0/100)
- Initial Confidence
- 2 · Low (23.5/100)
- Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
- Partial
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth
Initial Significance Moderate (35.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (27.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (23.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
- No eligible (non-geographic, non-fictional) entities were linked to this Signal.
- no matched Event type
- no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
- no actor content-derived geography
- single source only
- Only source-level entity metadata was available.
- Only source-level geography metadata was available.
- Source metadata did not contribute to Initial Confidence.
- Headline/summary word overlap is exceptionally low (0.00 < 0.1) with no reconciling content-derived entity/Event evidence.
Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-14 16:54:52.