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IEEPA Tariff Refunds in Process In its filing with the Court of International Trade this week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) declared importers made 47,315 CAPE submissions for tariff [...]

Ocean freight rates have been elevated since the start of the Iran War. However, as we’ve covered in Universal Cargo’s blog, international shipping’s capacity is not stretched [...]

Now’s the time for shippers to get back the money they spent in IEEPA-related tariffs. All-Ways reported in an email blast that “more than $166 billion in tariff refunds are now [...]

While the Trump Administration was at its height of unleashing new tariffs and tariff hikes last year, the toy industry saw sales growth. The way the industry handled imports, tariffs, and their [...]

It’s estimated the government owes shippers somewhere between $166 billion and $182 billion in tariff refunds due to the Supreme Court ruling against the Trump Administration’s use of [...]

Last week, we blogged on the opening of the Hormuz Strait, but with the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran feeling tenuous and Iran warning of possible mines in the water and [...]

With the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz, but shipping traffic through it is reportedly at a trickle. According to a Reuters article by [...]

Steel, Aluminum, Copper Tariffs Tariff changes on steel, aluminum, and copper went into effect yesterday (April 6th). President Trump issued a proclamation late last week, modifying Section 232 [...]

It’s time to look at what’s happening with freight rates. Whenever there’s a disaster, crisis, or disruption to a major shipping hub, freight rates are impacted. Usually, that [...]