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THE CUSTOMS BRIDGE US IMPORT COMPLIANCE

The Customs
Bridge

Trade Compliance Advisory

Most import programs are wrong in two directions at once.

Duty gets paid on goods that qualified for relief. Positions get filed that will not survive the questions CBP eventually asks. Both are invisible until someone reads the entries line by line, and by then the first has been costing money for years and the second has become a disclosure.

The Customs Bridge is an independent advisory practice for companies importing into the United States. It has no brokerage arm and files nothing, so it has nothing to defend when it reviews what was filed.

Practice Areas

Duty & Cost Recovery

Duty already overpaid, recovered, and the program restructured so it stops recurring.

  • Foreign trade zones and bonded warehousing
  • Duty drawback
  • Entry reconciliation and post-entry correction
  • First-sale valuation
  • Free trade agreement qualification

Classification & Trade Data

What is declared at the border should match what was actually decided. Often it does not.

  • HTS classification and review programs
  • Valuation methodology
  • Trade systems and master data quality
  • Broker filing accuracy oversight

Audit Defense & Disclosures

Readiness before an inquiry arrives, and response once it has.

  • CBP focused assessment preparation and response
  • Prior disclosure
  • Antidumping and countervailing duty exposure
  • Penalty mitigation
  • Protests and post-summary corrections
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Deep-water port, cargo vessels at berth

How Engagements Start

  1. Scoped assessmentA defined review of one exposure or program, with the scope and its boundaries agreed before any work begins.
  2. Written findingsWhat was found, what it is worth, and what correcting it would involve. Documented, not delivered as a conversation.
  3. Implementation supportHelp putting the findings into practice, or a clean handoff to the team or counsel who will.
Container stacks and gantry cranes at a United States marine terminal
Marine container terminal, Port Elizabeth, New Jersey

Enquiries

New engagements and general questions are handled by email.

support@thecustomsbridge.com