We handle all
Import Control Matters
- Customs and import trade regulations and issues
- Section 232 steel and aluminum exclusion requests
- Section 301 China tariff exclusion requests/mitigation/reduction
- Anti-dumping/countervailing duty (investigation petitions, scope rulings, changed circumstances reviews, new shipper reviews)
- Detentions/holds, seizures, and seizure options (petition for remission of forfeiture, offer in compromise, abandon, court action)
- Prior disclosure, penalties, fines, liquidated damages mitigation/reduction
- Legal opinions and guidance
- Rulings (HTS classification, country of origin, valuation, marking)
- Agency enforcement actions, CF 28/29 responses, investigations, focused assessments and other regulatory audits
- Importer Self-Assessment (ISA) program guidance and compliance
- Importer compliance practices (informed compliance, reasonable care, internal reviews, manuals, procedures, training, recordkeeping)
- Customs operational procedures (INCOTERMS interpretations, Importer Security Filing, entry of goods, shipping documents, assessment of value (including first sale), classifications, item/container marking)
- Import audits
- Duty protests, drawback (refund)/reconciliation programs, exemptions, and reductions
- Other agency requirements, prohibitions, restrictions, licenses, and permits
- Foreign-Trade Zones/Customs bonded warehouses
- NAFTA (certificates of origin, advance rulings, verification, determinations, appeals) and other free trade agreements programs
- Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT)