The CargoTrans team brings together licensed customs brokers, freight forwarders, and supply chain specialists with decades of combined experience moving goods across global trade lanes. As a full-service logistics partner, CargoTrans manages international supply chains end-to-end, helping importers and exporters navigate customs regulations, tariffs, and compliance with clarity and confidence.
Our experts write about the practical side of global trade: how tariff changes affect real shipments, what customs compliance demands day-to-day, and how visibility tools give shippers control over their freight. The goal is simple — help your business spend less time tracking shipments and overpaying duties, and more time growing.
Section 338 puts a 50% duty on three lists of Canadian goods, with no USMCA exemption. The Sep 15 scope changes and the narrow Sep 29 import bans explained.
How the CPSC disclaim works in ACE: Disclaim A vs Disclaim B, the intended use codes each requires, testing exclusions, and lines you should never disclaim.
A 510(k) exemption removes premarket notification only. Registration, listing, AofC codes, UDI and labeling still decide whether exempt devices clear FDA.
Under EPCA the importer is the manufacturer. How 19 CFR 12.50 lets CBP refuse uncertified appliances, HVAC and lamps, and what CCMS certification needs.
An Incoterms chart covering all 11 Incoterms 2020 rules by mode, carriage, insurance, and risk transfer point, plus how to pick the right one for a shipment.
Under DDP Incoterms 2020 the seller clears import and pays duty; under DAP the buyer does. Here is why that swap makes DDP risky for a non-resident seller.
CPT Incoterms have the seller pay carriage to a named destination while risk transfers to the buyer at origin. Here is exactly where that split happens.
FAS terms Incoterms and FOB both apply to sea freight only. See exactly where risk transfers under each, and why they differ from CPT and CIF.
DAP Incoterms shift risk to the buyer at the named destination but leave import clearance and duty to the buyer too. A licensed broker explains what that means.
Since January 1, 2026, fish from denied fisheries is banned and shared country and HTS lines need a Certification of Admissibility. How entries clear.
