Trade compliance that protects you before CBP does

You are. As the importer of record, the legal liability for a correct declaration sits with your company under CBP’s reasonable care standard, even when a broker files on your behalf. That is exactly why the classification and recordkeeping work matters. We build the filings and the paper trail so that reasonable care is demonstrable, not assumed.

ISF must transmit at least 24 hours before the cargo is laden aboard the vessel at the foreign port. A late, inaccurate, or missing filing can draw liquidated damages of up to 10,000 dollars per shipment, and repeated problems raise your exam rate. We file inside the window and confirm the 10 importer data elements against your commercial documents before transmission.

Classification turns on the General Rules of Interpretation, the section and chapter notes, and the specific makeup of your product, not on what sounds close. A wrong code can overpay duty or, worse, underpay it and create liability that CBP recovers with interest. We review your codes against the current tariff and, when a line is genuinely ambiguous, we can request a binding ruling so the answer is settled in writing.

Yes. Most PGA holds come from missing or mismatched data, an absent prior notice, or documentation the agency needs before it will release. We identify which agency has the hold, prepare the required filing, and work the release. The faster fix, though, is preparing PGA data before arrival so the hold never happens, which is how we set up regulated importers.

Do not answer off the cuff. A CF-28 is CBP asking you to justify a classification, value, or origin claim, and a weak response can escalate to a CF-29 rate advance or a Focused Assessment. Send it to us. We reconstruct the entry from your records, build a supported response, and if the underlying entry does have an error, we advise on Post Summary Correction or Prior Disclosure to limit the penalty before CBP acts on it.