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USTR published a Federal Register notice late Friday adding 87 HTS subheadings to List 4A and removing 23 from exclusion. We mapped the deltas, ranked by import volume, and flagged the codes most likely to hit Amazon sellers.
The EU Commission confirmed quarterly emissions reporting starts July 1 for in-scope imports. We break down what data your suppliers need to provide and which third-country verifications now qualify.
From the Customs Trade Procedures Reform to the new e-Manifest pilot, Japan has been quietly modernizing. A step-by-step walkthrough for cross-border sellers entering the market.
CBP rulings are written in customs-speak. Here's the anatomy of a ruling, what each section tells you, and the three sentences that matter most for your classification.
A bipartisan bill moving through committee would end the de minimis exemption for Section 301-affected goods. We model the impact on three typical TikTok Shop SKUs.
Post-Brexit divergence is real. We compare 50 of the most-shipped HS chapters across the UK Global Tariff and EU TARIC, and call out where preferential rules of origin still apply.
A walkthrough of the /classify/bulk endpoint: Excel ingestion, batching, retries on rate limits, and writing the audit-trail PDF back to S3.
MOFCOM updated rebate rates for 47 HS subheadings. We map the changes and explain how the rebate flows through to your landed-cost math.
A practical look at qualifying for USMCA preferential treatment when transshipping or doing light assembly in Mexico — including the regional value content test.
Power banks, "smart" wearables, and combo sets are the most-misclassified categories in our 2026 audit. Here's why, and how to fix them.