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Weekly trade intelligence for importers, exporters, brokers, and compliance operators.
For Canada lanes, the only date that matters now is the entry date
First-ever Section 338 duties put an additional 50% on listed Canadian goods from August 19 — no USMCA shield, no in-transit exception, and storage workarounds that mostly fail.
Your duty stack changed before most teams could reprice it
New Section 301 tariffs now reach most imports from 60 economies, with country rules, product exclusions, transit timing, and duty stacking to resolve.
Section 122 reaches the expiration week
The temporary import surcharge reaches its July 24 clock, putting entry timing, landed-cost assumptions, de minimis lanes, and replacement-tariff risk on one review list.
Entry corrections are getting a payment gate
Entry corrections now have a payment-control problem: ACH setup, full-payment gates, and cleaner entry data before the next fix.
Low-value trade is losing its easy lane
Low-value trade is becoming a normal customs-control workflow: more data, more duty logic, more lane decisions before arrival.
De minimis is now an entry-data problem
CBP split the low-value import transition by channel: non-postal is effective now, postal deadlines run July 24, September 22, and October 22.