Author: Jason Wapiennik

Earlier this week, President Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico which we wrote about. The tariff situation has…

Canada and Mexico, and America, wake up to new tariffs on March 4. The details are here for Canada (10%…

By means of Executive Order, President Trump has increased the recently imposed additional 10% tariff on goods originating from China…

President Trump has initiated an investigation into copper for the implicit purpose of considering whether additional trade actions, such as…

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The United States Trade Representative, in a new Federal Register notice, is seeking comments to help it identify unfair trade…

In our 15 years of helping people with cash seized by Customs, we have determined that, among all the ports…

Every Friday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) publishes a notice of intention to forfeit any property that has…

The San Ysidro Port of Entry is the busiest land border crossing in the Western Hemisphere, processing tens of millions…

CBP officers at the port of Louisville, Kentucky, inspected some packages arriving from China. The packages were destined for Arizona,…

We recently added a detailed page — Trump Tariff Strategy: When and How Duties Can Be Imposed — that goes…

Detroit CBP had a busy November 2024, reporting large currency seizures at Detroit Metro Airport, the Ambassador Bridge, and the…

CBP has publicized a violation of 19 USC 1497, a law which requires all arriving travelers to the United States…

CBP in Detroit has continued to log large money seizures for smuggling, structuring, and failing to report (on form FinCen…

A failure to understanding customs regulations can result in the failure to declare cash when traveling into or out of…

The latest CBP money seizure news publicized comes to us from Dulles airport (again). In the story below, CBP seized…

CBP in Detroit has continued to log large cash seizures for smuggling, structuring, and failure to report (on form FinCen…

In Philadelphia, CBP officers seized $36,000 in cash from a man returning from a trip to Lebanon. The full story…

UPDATE 9/13/24: Notice of Modification of Actions, certain tariffs set to increase on September 27, 2024, with other increases to…

CBP officers in Detroit had their own version of March madness, when they seized around $370,000 total in cash from…

Texas CBP officers seized $124,000 in Eagle Pass, Texas, on March 20, when a Mexican national traveled with $124,052, apparently…