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.
There’s no general import license USA importers must hold. See which products need a federal permit, from which agency, and what happens if you skip it.
Who files FDA prior notice, the 2, 4 and 8 hour windows by mode, PNSI vs ACE, the confirmation number, exemptions and what triggers an 801(m) refusal.
FDA’s revised general wellness guidance (Jan 6, 2026) decides whether a massage gun, TENS unit or wearable enters as a device. The claim test and entry impact.
The BIS Affiliates Rule extends Entity List, MEU and certain SDN restrictions to 50%-owned foreign affiliates. It returns 10 November 2026. What to do now.
Food, device, drug and cosmetic registration rules for foreign plants: the US Agent, the 2026 food renewal window, the FY2027 device fee and border holds.
Pharma Section 232 duties start Sep 29, 2026 for every company not in Annex III. How patent status, company status and the 9903.04 headings set your rate.
Apparel and footwear carry some of the highest ordinary US duty rates in the schedule. How Chapters 61, 62 and 64 work and what stacks on top.
Chinese EVs carry 100% under Section 301, EV batteries 25%, and graphite and magnets joined in 2026. The full ladder with effective years.
Canadian softwood carries Section 232 duty and a separate AD/CVD order at once. Current rates and the furniture increases delayed to 2027.
Ordinary duty on wine is measured per litre and is modest. Federal excise tax, TTB permits and FDA prior notice usually cost more than the tariff.
