Customs City Global Solutions Inc.

Name: Customs City Global Solutions Inc.
Address: 1315 Pickering Pkwy Suite 300, Pickering, ON, L1V7G5, CA
Telephone: +18887248914

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Customs City Global Solutions Inc.

The Customs City platform allows international trade participants to connect with CBP & CBSA.

09/02/2026

Nobody calls to tell you the entry cleared.

They call about the one that did not. Usually a client who already promised the delivery. Usually before you even knew there was a hold.

That is the part of this job that never made it into the job description. Not the filing. The waiting for something to go wrong somewhere you cannot see it.

So we built the screen we would have wanted. Every entry, every hold, every rejection, in real time.

You see it before the phone rings.

The job is still hard. You just stop getting ambushed by it.

Real people on support, 24/7.

09/01/2026

The phone number CBP has on file for your client probably rings a desk nobody sits at. On September 18 that becomes a problem.

CBP's August 19 general notice (91 FR 53627) is the first implementation step of Executive Order 14411.

Starting September 18, if the information on a Form 5106 is inaccurate or incomplete, CBP will void the IOR number, and a voided number is invalid for any purpose, including making entry. CBP says it is reviewing the data already on file, so long-established importers are in scope.

What the notice singles out:

Physical address. The actual location of the business or individual. Not a registered agent, not the broker, not a freight forwarder, not a P.O. box.
Email, phone, EIN. Valid and belonging to the IOR. Brokers may not substitute their own.
Power of attorney. Executed directly with the IOR, not routed through a freight forwarder or other third party.

The exposure runs both ways: broker penalties under 19 U.S.C. 1641, and 18 U.S.C. 1001 or False Claims Act risk for the certifying party.

Here is the part worth sitting with: CBP sends the void notice to the email address the IOR most recently submitted. If that address is the thing that is wrong, the first signal will be cargo that stops moving.

Pull your client list this week and check all six data elements: name, tax ID, mailing address, physical address, phone, email.

08/31/2026

Tranche 1 of the expanded U.S. beef quota opens tomorrow, Tuesday, September 1.

On August 26, the President signed "Further Ensuring Affordable Beef for the American Consumer" (91 FR 55989), temporarily adding 300,000 metric tons to the CY2026 in-quota quantity under a new subsection (c) of Additional U.S. Note 3 to Chapter 2 of the HTSUS.

What filers need to know:

Narrow scope. The increase covers only lean beef trimmings under statistical reporting numbers 0201.30.5091, 0201.30.5097, 0202.30.5091 and 0202.30.5097.

New Chapter 99 heading. The Annex establishes HTSUS 9903.54.02 for entries claiming the additional quantity, from 12:01 a.m. local port time on September 1 through 11:59 p.m. eastern time on November 30, 2026.

Three tranches, first come, first served. 100,000 mt from September 1–30. 100,000 mt from October 1–30. 100,000 mt opening October 31 and running until the quantity fills or November 30, whichever comes first.

Allocated entirely to "other countries or areas." Argentina's separate 80,000 mt increase under Proclamation 11010 is untouched.

Quota timing is unforgiving. A rejected summary can cost you the window.
It may not run the full 90 days. The proclamation directs USDA and USTR to monitor whether product entering under this increase is selling at 25 percent below the market price for lean beef trimmings.

Watch for CBP's quota bulletin and CSMS guidance before you transmit, the operational filing instructions come from there, not from the proclamation.

08/28/2026

How long does one entry take you right now?

CustomsAI Docs reads the invoice you already received and fills the entry.

CustomsAI HTS Classification turns a plain-language product description into ranked codes with confidence scores.

CustomsAI Duty Calculation turns code, value and origin into duty, and every other fee.

Three tools. Same workflow. Fewer tabs open.

Book a demo: https://zurl.co/zVtiD

08/27/2026

Three tools. Three problems. One platform.

CustomsAI isn't a single product. It's three tools that solve three separate headaches.

CustomsAI Docs — for the data entry problem
You already receive commercial invoices, packing lists, BOLs and AWBs. Upload them and the AI pulls out what your entry needs: parties, shipment details, line items, values. Every AI-extracted field is marked with a star, so you can tell at a glance what came from a document and what you typed. Nothing goes to CBP until you preview and confirm it. Missing data? Save the entry and finish it when the document shows up.

CustomsAI HTS Classification — for the "which code is this?" problem
Describe the product in plain language. No jargon, no formatting requirements. You get ranked HTS matches, each with a confidence score, plus PGA flags, duty exemptions and the reasoning behind each suggestion. Your whole team works from the same results, so classifications stop depending on who happened to do the research.

CustomsAI Duty Calculation — for the landed cost problem
Enter the HTS code, value and country of origin. You get the duty rate,
and every other applicable fee. Email the breakdown to a client in one click.

Each tool stands on its own. Each has 24/7 support. And if you use more than one, they talk to each other: classify a product, then price it, without leaving the platform.

https://zurl.co/LW7gS

08/26/2026

Canada's countermeasures land September 8 at 12:01 a.m.: 15%, 25% and 50% on more than 700 U.S.-origin products, C$27.6B worth. Steel and aluminum double to 50%. Each rate mirrors the corresponding U.S. rate line by line, so "is it on the list?" doesn't get you to a number.

Southbound, Section 338 has been live since August 22 — a flat additional 50% on covered Canadian dairy, alcoholic beverages and motor vehicles, on top of existing duties and fees. CUSMA gives you nothing here. A valid certificate of origin doesn't change the outcome; the HTS classification does.

Two directions, two different clocks:

→ Into the U.S.: duty is set by the entry date, not the ship date. No in-transit grace period.
→ Into Canada: goods already in transit on September 8 are exempt.

That asymmetry is where the expensive mistakes happen. Classification and origin both need to be settled before you book, not after.

08/25/2026

Canada answered. September 8 is the date.

Counter-tariffs of 15%, 25% and 50% on C$27.6 billion in U.S.-origin goods, effective 12:01 a.m. September 8. Roughly 700 products. Steel and aluminum double from 25% to 50%. Also on the list: furniture, apparel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, plastics, electronics.

Two exposures now — Section 338 headings going south, Canadian counter-tariffs going north.

Rates are tiered, so "is it on the list?" is only half the question. The other half is origin. These apply only to goods that qualify as U.S. goods under the CUSMA marking rules — not the preferential origin rules. Different test, different answer.

Two weeks to classify. Existing counter-tariffs on autos stay in place, and the remission framework is still open for exceptional relief.

08/24/2026

Cargo rarely stops because of what is inside the container.
It stops because of a field.

One digit off in the HTS. A consignee spelled two ways across two documents. A date in a format the system will not accept.

None of that is a judgment call. It is a formatting problem.

And that is where the day actually goes. Not into deciding, but into re-keying, re-checking, re-sending.

The filings that come back accepted on the first try are not the simple ones. They are the ones where the data was already clean before it was submitted.

That is what we build for at CustomsCity.

How much of your week goes into fixing information you already had?

08/21/2026

Great software is the easy part.

Picking up the phone at 2 a.m. is the part that actually saves you.

A shipment hits the border at 2 a.m. A rejection comes back on a Sunday. A deadline lands in the middle of a holiday weekend. That is when a platform stops being a platform and becomes whoever answers the phone.

Plenty of companies will sell you customs software. Fewer will answer while the cargo is still sitting at the crossing.

We built both: the filing platform brokers, forwarders and importers rely on across the US, and a support team that does not close.

Because at 2 a.m., nobody wants a help center article. They want a human.

Book a demo. https://zurl.co/Cd8cj

08/20/2026

MPF goes up on October 1. The rate does not.

CBP published its FY2027 user fee adjustment on July 31 (CBP Dec. 26-14). For formal entries:

Rate: 0.3464%, unchanged
Minimum: $33.58 to $34.58
Maximum: $651.50 to $670.86

Applies to entries on or after October 1, 2026.

The number worth writing down: roughly $9,983.

Divide the new minimum by the rate and that is your floor breakeven. Below about $9,983 in entered value, the percentage calculation lands under the minimum and you pay the minimum. Above it you pay the percentage, until the $670.86 ceiling kicks in at roughly $193,666 in entered value.

That breakeven moved too. Under FY2026 it sat at about $9,694. If your system has the threshold hard coded, it needs updating.

Why it matters differently depending on who you are:

If you file high volume formal entries under about $9,983, this hits every single one of them at exactly $1.00 more per entry. Small per entry, meaningful across a year.

If your entries are large enough to hit the cap, only the ceiling moves for you, at $19.36 more per entry, and the exposure stays capped.

If you sit between roughly $9,983 and $193,666, nothing changes. The rate is frozen and you are paying the percentage either way.

Same notice, same effective date, three other lines worth checking:

Manual entry surcharge: $4.15
Informal entry, automated: $2.77
Customs broker permit user fee: $190.88

Either way, it belongs in your landed cost model before Q4 budgets lock.

Address

1315 Pickering Pkwy Suite 300
Pickering, ON
L1V7G5

Telephone

+18887248914

Website

https://customscity.com/

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