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New duty on importing Chinese flooring

Attention flooring importers! Chinese flooring manufacturers found “dumping” flooring to the U.S. with their very low prices for flooring destined to the U.S. American flooring companies had sued for higher duties (anti-dumping duties) to be placed against certain Chinese imports [...]

2021 CBP Trade Symposium- save the date!

Reserve your spot for the CBP Trade Symposium happening on July 21-22, 2021 at the Hilton Anaheim, Anaheim California. Sells out fast! CNI will keep you updated. [...]Read More... from 2021 CBP Trade Symposium- save the date!

Triennial Status and Fee Submission due – don’t be late!

On December 15,2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that the 2021 Customs Broker Triennial Status Report and Fee Submission has begun. Licensed Customs brokers will have until February 28, 2021, to file a status report with CBP. Every [...]

New Aluminum License Requirement

According to the final rule published in the Federal Register on December 23, 2020, The U.S. Department of Commerce put into effect a new system- Aluminum Import Monitoring and Analysis (AIM). Beginning on January 25, 2021, licenses will now be [...]

USTR issues List 3 product exclusion list

On November 7, 2019 the Office of the U.S. Representative (USTR) released a notice granting and additional 36 exclusions from the 301 China duties. Prior, on October 28, 2019, the Federal Register notice (84 FR 57802) was issued notating that [...]

Section 321 entry type 86 deployed in ACE

On September 28, 2019, CBP deployed the new Entry Type 86 for Section 321 (low-valued shipments) through ACE. Trade users will benefit from this enhancement by being able to now electronically transmit low-valued shipment data to Customs. Using entry type [...]

Update on Post Summary Corrections (PSC) for importers

With the transition to ACE over the last few years, one of the big benefits was the improvement of the Post Summary Corrections(PSC) filing process.  With that, importers were looking forward to correcting entries quickly, easily, and less-expensively, regardless of [...]

Additional broker verifications on importers

According to this Federal Register notice, CBP is proposing amendments to the current broker verification regulations, and WOW!, it’s going to be a lot of additional work for the broker.  This proposed amendment will require customs brokers to collect certain [...]