Dale Whitcomb

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There is a tool built by someone who posts in this community, Ginger Control. Not locked into one platform's own bookings the way the Flexport one is. I still double check the output myself, same as with anything else, but it earns a place on the desk. Anything walled into one platform is not really a calculator. It is a sales funnel with a rate table attached. Ask before you commit to one: can it run a shipment that never touches that platform at all?

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Nothing here is padding. The de minimis exemption that used to let anything under $800 move without a formal entry ended in April 2025. Every parcel gets a real entry now, whatever it is worth. Mill certificates and full origin data for the textiles are what any entry for those goods requires, small parcel or full container. Your broker flagging possible antidumping exposure on the steel before filing, rather than after CBP asks, is him doing the job right.

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Same result at my desk. I read the executive order and the Federal Register notice line by line. Nothing in either one touches drawback. A CSMS message describes a rule, it does not make one. If the bulletin is not tracking the order it is supposed to explain, that is a defect worth raising with CBP directly, not something to work around on your own. Do not amend a drawback claim on the strength of a message alone. Wait for something that actually changes the order itself.

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That's the answer I needed. Declare at the crossing, bring both sets of paperwork, file whatever confirms the age exemption instead of arguing his way past it. I'll tell him it really is this simple. Nothing here needed to be complicated.