Classification, duty rates, rulings
This one is South African, so treat it as my jurisdiction. On 18 September four notices went in together for corrosion-resistant coil from China: 5.5% anti-dumping duty until 11 June 2027, then 20.5%, then 35.5%, then 57.84% from 12 June...
Sanity check, and I will lay out what I have read before I ask, because this is the kind of line where the missing detail turns out to be the one that mattered. CBP put out updated Section 232 pharmaceutical guidance on 28 September in...
Somebody wrote a duty scope out of my job description and I have been sitting here since the floor went quiet trying to work out whether it lands on me. Commerce opened dumping and subsidy cases on September 9. Hydraulic cylinders, the...
Floor went quiet at six and I have been sat here since with a filing message from last week that I still cannot tell whether it cost me anything, which is the part keeping me up. The shape of it is this. An exclusion from the China duties...
Second night this week I have sat here after the floor went quiet with the refund notices open, and I still cannot work out whether any of it is pointed at me. Here is what I read. The emergency tariffs, the IEEPA ones, got struck down in...
Season figures landed yesterday and I have been reading them backwards. The 12.5 percent Section 301 surcharge on our goods has been on since the small hours of 24 July, with a short window for anything already loaded and entered by 28...
Every quote I put together right now starts the same way: pull the schedule, work the layers by hand, hope nothing has shifted since the last one I ran. Fine for one shipment. Not fine when I am pricing five in a morning and the client...
Reading through last night's CSMS # 69606660 notice on the new Section 338 tariff, and I cannot find it anywhere in the HTSUS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule) sequencing instructions the notice gives. What is stranger: the instructions still...
The facts in order. My broker's invoice carried a line I had not seen before, for complex classification. He explained it with an article from Brazil that took five minutes when we first brought it in and almost four hours this time,...
My company has been holding off on filing for the Phase 3 refund under IEEPA, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, mostly because nobody above me can tell me whether the uncertainty is a reason to wait or just an excuse...
We sent a small parcel to a new US office: branded shirts and mugs, a handful of spare steel fittings, some stickers. Total value under a thousand dollars. Our broker is treating it like a full commercial entry: manufacturer and origin...
Our US arm sells precision components to an Ontario distributor, and two truckloads are moving now. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) counter-tariffs against US-origin goods took effect at 00:01 EDT today, Sep 8. Both loaded on Sep...
CBSA told the CSCB on Sep 4: no guidance before Sep 7, Sep 8 live regardless. My Windsor partners file B3s tomorrow with no Customs Notice and no Chapter 99 map. My clients truck US-origin goods north daily. Every B3 for freight arrived...
I keep a 2019 HTS table of contents at my desk. Yes, it is seven years out of date. I use it for one thing only: finding the right chapter fast, the first four digits, before I go anywhere near the current schedule for the actual...
A trailer of parts is loading for our customer in Ohio, USMCA certification in the file. This time the customer wants the forced labour exclusion claimed on the same entry, and their broker says the system refuses it next to the USMCA...
Not a box stuck somewhere this time; money, a US client's. We booked the freight, our US agent's broker filed the entries, and the file is on my desk, question included. They asked CBP to refund tariffs on several entries and were told a...
We were named importer of record on entries FedEx filed under their own bond, and the portal has shown some of them as refund received since May. FedEx's own site said payment would start on 10 August, but nobody there, not the portal and...
I am looking at two of our broker's 7501 entries and I cannot tell if I am missing something or if ACE just let two mistakes through. One line, HTS 8538.90.8180, has 9903.82.09 added even though that heading is not eligible for the 232...
I read about the Canadian company whose electric golf trolleys the CBSA (Canada Border Services Agency) reassessed as Chinese electric vehicles, leaving it owing $183K. What I checked: the story says the importer entered them under the...
We have a USMCA entry that will not accept the forced-labour exclusion. I have tried it under 9903.05.93 and again under 9903.05.86, and neither one goes through. The filing comes back rejected without telling me anything useful about why....
Rattan and wood decor, small parcels from Binh Duong to buyers in the US, all on FedEx with duties billed back to my account, so FedEx was the importer of record and paid the IEEPA duties (the emergency tariffs) on my behalf. I put my...
I have spent close to four hours today classifying a single article out of Brazil. Two years ago it was a five-minute job. The article has not changed. Everything around it has. I am not asking anyone for their rate. I am asking how the...
