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Rittener Reflections Podcast Know Your Data:
Angela Aaron on Trade Compliance, Tariff Volatility, and the Power of Visibility...
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How Shipment Visibility Became a Trade Compliance Tool
Article Brief: Treating shipment tracking as a convenience in logistics is now a liability because compliance visibility has moved beyond delivery upd...
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Compliance Visibility Is Profitable: Unlocking Faster Clearances and Fewer Penalties
Article Brief: It can be quite an expensive endeavor to think and operate as if the customs clearance is just about getting your shipments into the co...
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Customs Clearance Automation Software: The 2025 Guide
Cut clearance times and errors with customs clearance automation software. See how AI validation, real-time status, and audit-ready records work—plu...
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How to Build Real-Time Audit Trails for Customs Compliance Visibility
Article Brief: Your broker’s entries or data submissions are no longer sufficient to pass a customs audit. And that is because governments around th...
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Can Compliance Visibility Help With Quick Customs Refunds and Clearance?
Article Brief: It can be quite an expensive endeavor to think and operate as if the customs clearance is just about getting your shipments into the co...
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Small Parcel Optimization: How to Cut Entry Costs Without Killing Speed
Article Brief: It is often assumed that small parcel shipping is cheaper, faster, and easier to manage. There is some truth to that, but context is ne...
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The New Customs Compliance Risk Importers Face After De Minimis Ends
Article Brief: Prior to the removal of the de minimis threshold, low-value shipments, which accounted for 90-92% of shipments entering the country, of...
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Why Marketplace Compliance is Necessary in a Post–De Minimis United States
In a post-de minimis world, where every shipment entering the U.S. now triggers duties, taxes, and deeper customs checks, marketplace compliance is qu...
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Type 86 Shipment Is Gone: What U.S. Retailers Must Know About the New Clearance Costs
Article Brief: They say all good things must come to an end. Cross-border e-commerce platforms and online marketplaces spent years believing that type...
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Landed Cost Calculation for Small Brands Facing New Transparency Rules
TL;DR The old de minimis rule no longer protects online retailers and e-commerce brands heavily involved in cross-border transactions. The remov...
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Is International E-Commerce Profitability Possible Without De Minimis?
Article Brief: Being a high-volume low-margin business, e-commerce profitability has relied heavily on customer growth. But the fundamentals have cont...
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Why Do You Need Clean Customs Documentation In Refund Claims
The success of your refund claim depends on the strength of your customs documentation, as auditors trust what they can verify. They review documents ...
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The Best Refund Strategy For CFOs
Duty refunds often come as a pleasant surprise for many importers, especially because they arrive without a predictable pattern and rarely align with ...
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Duty Recovery Automation: From Manual Spreadsheets to Refund Automation
Building a Refund-Ready Trade Data Management Stack Imagine managing and tracking duty refunds through scattered spreadsheets, color-coded cells, hopi...
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Trade Data Management for Refund Claims: What Importers Need to Get Right
Trade Data Management for refund claims: US dollar...
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How KlearHub Can Help Importers Navigate Tariff Uncertainty
Global supply chains have borne the brunt of several disruptive events in the past few years, including the pandemic-induced vessel congestion that la...
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Transform Customs Compliance With Intelligent Document Processing
Exporters and importers engaged in cross-border trade have to contend with far greater regulatory and documentary requirements than is the case with d...
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HTS Classification: Challenges, Risks, and How to Get It Right
The growth of international trade since the 2000s has been accompanied by an increase in the number of products traded. The shifting of manufacturing ...
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Why AI Platform Integration is Key for Tech Stacks to Work Together
Exporters and logistics companies began investing in technology in the early 2000s, as globalization expanded and once-compact supply chains dispersed...
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Does Supply Chain Software Consolidation Benefit Your Software Stack?
The WTO is helping to create a more level playing field in global trade. At the same time, many Western companies are moving production overseas to ta...
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Build Global Trade Visibility Through Customs Control Towers
Build Supply Chain Visibility Through Global Trade and Customs Control Towers Globalization has spread supply chains across the world, creating comple...
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The Role of Global Trade Data in Simplifying Customs Compliance
The geographical spread of global supply chains has meant the involvement of several countries (and their regulations) in international trade. As manu...
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How to Build an AI Rollout Strategy for Trade Compliance
How to Build an AI Rollout Strategy for Trade Compliance The exponential increase in international trade of goods and services has been accompanied by...