Tag: Customs Compliance
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Commerce is policing a stockpiling ban ahead of the Dec. 4 Section 232 polysilicon tariffs and price floors, putting customs brokers on notice and leaving solar buyers with eight weeks to secure inventory before module costs jump as much as 40 percent. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2026 Importers racing to bring solar modules and wafers into…
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CBP opens the final tranche of IEEPA tariff refunds to roughly 3,700 court plaintiffs, unlocking a claims pool reported at more than $134 billion and leaving thousands of non-litigating importers still waiting at the door WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2026 U.S. Customs and Border Protection today opened the third and most consequential phase of its Consolidated…
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US Customs and Border Protection opens the third and hardest phase of its emergency-tariff refund program on October 6, unlocking an estimated 11.4 billion dollars in finally liquidated entries. Only importers who sued can walk through the door. WASHINGTON, October 3, 2026 The largest customs refund operation in American history enters its final and most…
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The European Union’s melt and pour traceability requirement took effect on October 1, converting a paperwork obligation into the gatekeeper for an 18.3 million tonne quota backed by a 50 percent out-of-quota duty BRUSSELS, October 2, 2026 As of 00:00 on October 1, 2026, a steel consignment arriving at an European Union port without documentary…
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Europe’s new steel wall hardens on 1 October as melt and pour proof becomes binding and a second quota tranche opens against near total exhaustion of the first BRUSSELS, 29 September 2026 Europe’s steel importers have roughly 48 hours left before the most consequential customs paperwork requirement in a generation takes legal effect, and the…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls the court-ordered return of 166 billion dollars in invalidated IEEPA duties a form of corporate welfare, as thousands of small importers report that the money they are owed has not arrived WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2026 – Seven months after the Supreme Court held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act…
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Customs and Border Protection opened its Entry Type 13 pilot this week, putting an electronic informal entry pathway under the international postal stream for the first time and giving low-value shipments carrying Section 232 and Section 301 duties a route that does not run through formal entry. WASHINGTON, September 24, 2026 The single largest unresolved…
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India drops the routine Form-I requirement for preferential claims on British goods, resolving a compliance clash that had been blunting the tariff benefits of the two-month-old trade agreement. NEW DELHI, September 27, 2026 India’s Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has removed the requirement for importers to submit Form-I with every bill of entry…
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India’s revenue intelligence directorate says Samsung and LG wrongly claimed a 5 percent concessional duty on OLED open cells that should have carried 15 percent, reopening the oldest question in tariff administration: what counts as the same technology NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 India is investigating LG Electronics and Samsung for allegedly paying lower tariffs…
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Australia publishes eight tariff concession records in a single day, seven of them liberalising, one restrictive, with retroactive dates stretching back to June. The tranche is routine administration, and that is exactly why importers should read it. CANBERRA, 24 September 2026. Australia on 23 September published a tranche of customs tariff amendments under its Tariff…