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What is a Petition for Mitigation, and What is a Prior Disclosure?

There is simply no other way to put it, for Customs and Border Protection, trade is at the forefront of their focus, and that means at ports of entry there is increased enforcement against non-compliance. The means of detecting infractions are becoming

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What are the Differences between a Post Summary Correction and a Protest?

If you have been keeping abreast of the news over the past few months, you’ll know that there is a possibility of a refund on overpaid tariffs. In contemplating what the process of managing this refund might look like, we are brought to a highly relevant topic, namely, how the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processes corrections

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What is a CBP Automated Clearinghouse, and Why Do You Need It?

If your import business involves making payments to Customs and Border Protection, then now is the time to register with the CBP Automated Clearinghouse (ACH). This service is uniquely qualified to help US importers have clarity and order even during tumultuous moments in the international marketplace, and once you are registered, the benefits are many and nearly instantaneous.

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What Is the Difference Between a Sufferance Warehouse and a Bonded Warehouse?

A tomato is technically a fruit, but doesn’t go well in fruit salad. Similarly, at first blush, a sufferance warehouse and a bonded warehouse may both seem like they are comparable or even interchangeable, but their differences are vital, and getting it right as an importer or carrier has far more than just a ruined salad at stake.

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What You Need to Know About Customs Compliance and Audits in 2025

Audits are increasing in 2025, there’s no two ways about it - US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is on the lookout for gaps and anomalies in import declarations across the board. In March alone, CBP completed 71 audits and identified $310 million in lapsed duties and fees owed to the US Government. They also found an additional $49 million from previous fiscal years.

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Tariff Relief in Canada

Trading in the year 2025 has become more complicated and costly than ever. What the new 25% tariff has meant for Canada and its international businesses is an advancement in curiosity on the mechanisms and programs that offer tariff relief. With new high-duty environments waiting for Canadian importers, it has become more critical than ever to leverage every advantage available. But what is available to Canadian businesses affected by these tariffs? And, perhaps more importantly, how do those businesses functionally put these programs to work?

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What Happens When You Do Not Post Financial Security?

April 19th, 2025, marks an imperative date for Canadian Commercial Importers - the end of the 180-day grace period of Release Prior to Payment Privileges (RPP) for those importers without a form of financial security posted in their CARM Client Portal. For those importers, this blog is for you, as failure to do so will result in the CBSA rejecting your shipments at the border, and as a result, a lengthy in-term release process with increased costs.

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Let’s Talk About Tariff Relief for Importers in the USA

We have talked at length about the good and bad of tariffs in the past few weeks, but one of the questions we haven’t quite dived into is the one that perhaps deserves the most attention: What can actually be done to help you navigate increased costs tied to new duties and tariffs? The answer is, fortunately, quite a bit.

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