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.
UV-C sterilizers, air purifiers with germ-kill claims and ultrasonic repellers are FIFRA devices. What EPA needs before arrival: Est. No., label and NOA.
A Canada non resident importer can be the US importer of record without a US office. What bonding, an IOR number, and a resident agent actually require.
A customs power of attorney lets a broker file entries on your behalf. What CBP Form 5291 covers, who has to sign it, and how long it stays valid.
What is a 7501 form for customs? It’s the Entry Summary that computes duty, MPF and HMF on an entry. Key blocks, who files it, and how it reaches liquidation.
The 10% and 12.5% Section 301 forced labor tariffs on 60 economies: Chapter 99 headings, the EU and Japan cap, exemptions, stacking and drawback.
How a CBP customs bond works under 19 CFR 113: single entry vs continuous bonds, how CBP sets the amount, activity codes, cost and how to obtain one.
A customs HTS code is a 10-digit number that sets your duty rate. How chapter, heading, subheading and suffix are structured, and where to look yours up.
The US Customs list of prohibited items isn’t one document. Learn what’s absolutely banned, what’s restricted with a permit, and what happens at the port.
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.
