AI and automated technologies are a "natural evolution" in customs brokerage, according to a white paper published by the National Customs Brokerage & Forwarders Association of America on May 22. The NCBFAA said these technologies should be integrated into the legal framework while maintaining the central role of the customs broker.
CBP has ruled that license fees for software as a service in a vehicle navigation system aren't dutiable as part of the price paid or payable for imported vehicles, nor are they additions to value.
CBP is putting interim measures on Dymatec USA for evading an antidumping duty order on diamond sawblades from China by transshipping Chinese sawblades through the U.K. and declaring the U.K. as their country of origin, according to a CBP notice of investigation.
CBP is putting interim measures on several cast iron soil pipe and cast iron soil pipe fittings importers, including California Plumbing Supplies, Long Mile and Seamist Pomona, for evasion of antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders, according to a notice of initiation of an Enforce and Protect Act investigation.
Takers of the April 2026 customs broker license exam have reported discrepancies between answers they listed on their own scratch paper tracking sheets and the digital score reports listing their recorded answers that were posted after the exam. Compounding those concerns are recent changes that limit the ability of test takers to appeal their scores to CBP.
Amid concerns over bad actors stealing importers' refunds of International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, CBP is set to deploy multi-factor authentication to the ACE portal, and also is looking at incorporating AI to identify suspicious trends and behaviors, as well as real-time alerts for changes to banking information, CBP’s John Everett said on a webinar.
Refunds have begun hitting some importers' bank accounts, Mollie Sitkowski, a partner at Faegre Drinker, said in an email. She said almost $5,000 hit her client's bank account on May 5.
Much of the trade industry isn’t ready for the Consumer Product Safety Commission's eFiling requirement to become mandatory in ACE on July 8, brokers and professionals said.
After Court of International Trade Judge Richard Eaton released a summary of a closed CIT conference that said tariff refund payouts would start May 11 (see 2604290064), brokers and importers reported new difficulties getting on CBP's Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries (CAPE) system.
Around 30% of entry summaries in the past year contained discrepancies for entries with one- or two-line items, according to a report from Gaia Dynamics. That error rate was raised to 80% for entries with 50 or more line items.