Customs & Compliance

Anti-Dumping Duties: The Tariff That Can Exceed Your Cargo’s Value

AD/CVD is set per factory, governed by written scope not tariff codes, and assessed retrospectively. How to check before you place the order.

Duties are a personal debt of the importer of record. Who can legally hold the role, and why letting your supplier take it costs more than it saves.

Your HTS code sets your duty rate, and the importer of record owns the mistake. Penalties reach 2x the shortfall for negligence and 4x for fraud.

The $800 duty-free threshold ended in 2025 and Section 321 is repealed from July 2027. What replaced it, and what it means for your landed cost.

Three ways to release ocean cargo, and picking wrong can strand your container. What each one does, and what happens if an original B/L goes missing.

What EXW, FOB, DAP and DDP actually shift onto you, and why FOB is the sensible default for sea freight from China or Vietnam.

ISF is due 24 hours before your vessel departs, not arrives. The penalty is $5,000 per violation. What to file, and how mitigation works.

Every US commercial import needs a customs bond. What single-entry and continuous bonds cost in 2026, and the three-shipment break-even.