CSMS messages, HTS changes, Section 301 exclusions, bond rules, FMC dockets and enforcement actions — translated into what a filer has to do about them this week.
A Federal Register enforcement notice that took effect Sept. 18 lets CBP void an importer-of-record number the moment it finds a bad address or phone number on file — with no grace period to fix it first.
A Garland, Texas couple built a nationwide e-commerce business on unregistered Mexican pesticides and unapproved veterinary drugs — using a logistics chain of cross-border trips, a storage unit and ordinary parcel carriers that any customs broker would recognize.
Monthly trade between the two countries jumped 27.5% year over year, and the border crossing that carries most of it is now rejecting more than one in ten loads.
Five new proclamations replace the 50% Canadian dairy and alcohol duty with a flat ban, and the GSA is stripping an estimated $50 billion in Canadian-origin goods from federal purchasing schedules.
Ottawa's retaliation mirrors Washington's tariff schedule almost exactly, leaving cross-border freight buyers on both sides of the CUSMA relationship absorbing new duty costs starting this week.
A single port interception in early August led investigators to a warehouse holding nearly 26,000 fake Nike and Adidas items — and the importer of record is still at large.
