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It’s Time to Renew Your Free Trade Agreement Documents

As the title might suggest, it is once again time to renew your free trade agreement (FTA) certifications, including your USCMA/CUSMA/T-MEC Certificate of Origin. If you already know what we are talking about, then just consider this a friendly reminder to get your certification in order as you’ve done in the past, and contact your broker to initiate this process as promptly as possible. Sooner is always better than later in our current trade environment.

The CBP And Cargo Abandonment

Cargo abandonment is a topic that has been on the rise of late, with increasingly frequent regulatory changes often adding additional stress or challenges on importers, leaving them in positions where sometimes hard or impossible choices need to be made.

How to Import Without De Minimis

For those who are not aware, de minimis shipping has come to an end in the US. Effective August 29, 2025, the de minimis exemption, which previously extended duty-free shipping to goods with a value of less than $800, is being suspended in an effort to address national security concerns, including the trafficking of illicit goods such as fentanyl.

What is a Petition for Mitigation, and What is a Prior Disclosure?

There is simply no other way to put it, for Customs and Border Protection, trade is at the forefront of their focus, and that means at ports of entry there is increased enforcement against non-compliance. The means of detecting infractions are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and mistakes that may have gone undetected in the past are being brought to light with even greater effectiveness.