CUSTOMS
BROKERAGE
Our
customs brokers are highly-trained import professionals, licensed
by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, possessing a thorough
knowledge of tariff schedules and Customs regulations.
For every shipment entering the United States there is an official
greeting: 500 pages of Customs regulations and thousands of tariff
items. Our customs brokers are well versed in determining proper
classifications and dutiable value, and are fully aware of the
vast number of commodities subject to quotas.
Our customs brokers can help you choose modes of transportation
and appropriate carriers, which require analyses of a vast body
of data. They can also provide assistance to importers in assigning
shipments the best routes as well as estimates for land based
costs, payments of goods through draft, letters of credit insurance,
and re-delivery of cargo if there is more than one port of destination.
Our
Licensed brokers perform such services as:
· Automated Entry Processing - Our direct links with the
Customs ABI program allows us to enjoy fast entry processing and
cargo releases. Automated entry filing also improves compliance
rates for importers through consistency of entry data.
· Automated Clearinghouse - Electronic transfer of funds
for duty payments direct from the importer to Customs.
· Duty Drawback - Our drawback specialists handle all aspects
of drawback claims from recordkeeping to electronic filing of
claims and expedited refunds.
· Tariff Classification Services - Our vast knowledge of
the HTS can assist your product development while our consulting
services can assist and prepare for binding rulings and protest
assistance.
· Online Tracking & Tracing -US Express on-line tracking
& tracing via our Web Site, allows our customers with valid
passwords into a secure area of the site and may quickly and efficiently
obtain the most current shipment status available.
· US Customs Bonds- We offer single transaction bonds to
companies that do not import on a regular basis and continuous
bonds, which renew annually for regular importers
· Maritime Cargo Insurance - As licensed insurance brokers,
we can provide All Risk insurance coverage at very competitive
rates from origin to destination under our open cargo policy.
We can also arrange individual special risk coverage for your
product shipped via ocean or air.
· Landed Duty Paid Reporting: This plus a vast variety
of other useful reports that are extracted out of our database
for our customers to review so that they can have the ability
to determine their exact costing structures.
· OGA Specialists- Within our company, we maintain experts
with complete knowledge of many other government agency requirements,
such as Food & Drug Administration (FDA), US Department of
Agriculture (USDA), Fish & Wildlife, and many others.
SPECIAL
IMPORT PROGRAMS
Our U.S. Customs specialists we can also determine if there are
any special duty free programs such as section 321, that may be
available for imported cargo.
