Customs and Border Protection

A new White House report says transshipments have become a growing target of global scammers.

The U.S. government will collect $5 million from a Taiwanese company and its U.S. subsidiary for an alleged scheme to evade duties. A multi-agency task force has collected over $1 billion for trade fraud in one year.

Importers are facing difficult decisions regarding refunds after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Trump’s emergency tariffs.  

The American Association of Port Authorities and legislators want to limit the ability of Customs and Border Protection to bill them for inspection services.

Authorities at the Port of Long Beach on Friday seized 55 tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine.

Executives at an LA freight forwarding company smuggled billions of dollars in goods into Mexico from the U.S. in a scheme involving kickbacks to drug cartels and bribes to customs officials, prosecutors say.

The trucking industry is warning that overhauling how Customs and Border Protection processes low-value shipments from Canada and Mexico will come with its own price tag.

This week we explore how retailers are balancing security measures with customer experience.

As nearshoring increases the volume of products carried across the U.S. border, seizures of illegal narcotics from freight are also on the rise.

Two Midwest importers have settled a customs fraud case with the U.S. government for $10 million.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection last week seized 3,400 pounds of methamphetamine on the Southern border and 266 pounds of cocaine on the Northern border – all on the same day.

Truck brokerages have been barred for years from getting a key terrorism-related Customs designation that allows for easier passage; that may soon change.

Del Rio port of entry could reopen as soon as Saturday, after being forced to close because of a migrant surge that disrupted operations.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mundi launches a finance tool aimed at Mexico-based freight forwarders; more manufacturing jobs are headed for Mexico; Dachser Mexico is providing cross-border services for a tuna shipper; and CBP releases a cross-border trade operational update.

U.S. Customs and the Transportation Security Administration have different programs for preventing explosives from being smuggled onto aircraft in the cargo. A new report recommends ways to further improve security.

The CBP’s final rule is seen as aiding the U.S. Postal Service in weighing which shipments fail to comply with a data preclearance directive.

More than $3.6 million in marijuana, methamphetamine and e-cigarettes were seized from Texas ports during three recent incidents.

1994: Despite its effectiveness in catching contraband, Customs pulls the plug on X-ray procedures at Tacoma.

Agents find more than 1,800 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a shipment of tomatoes and in gas tanks.

Mexican drivers were protesting having to return empty tractor-trailers through the Colombia-Solidarity bridge