Customs and trade programs, run with broker-side depth.
From formal entry to duty drawback, FTZ, wine, temporary imports, and post-entry compliance — JFS CHB files it with licensed oversight and follow-through most brokers skip.
Formal customs entry, filed clean.
Formal entry of commercial merchandise for consumption, filed through ABI/ACE with full duty, tax, and fee calculation and complete entry summaries.
What we handle
- ABI/ACE entry filing & CBP Form 7501 summary
- Duty, tax, MPF, and HMF calculation
- ISF (10+2) filing and bond coverage
- PGA coordination — FDA, USDA, EPA, FWS
- Section 301 / 232 / IEEPA tariff handling
- USMCA & FTA qualification
- Exam, hold, and detention response
Entry types we file
- Time-sensitive parcel entries
- Live entries
- Mail entries
- Hand-carry entries
- FDA-regulated entries
- Section 321 / Type 86
24/7/365 hand-carry clearance, wheels-up.
A dedicated round-the-clock operation for couriers hand-carrying time-critical cargo on commercial flights — live entries and hand-carry entries filed the moment wheels are up.
What makes it special
- Dedicated 24/7/365 courier desk
- Live entries filed wheels-up
- Hand-carry entry filing
- Time-critical commercial-flight cargo
- Airport coordination & exam handling
- After-hours, weekend & holiday clearance
Recover duties you already paid.
Get back up to 99% of duties, taxes, and fees paid on imported goods that are later exported or destroyed — cash most importers leave on the table.
Drawback programs
- Manufacturing drawback
- Unused merchandise drawback
- Rejected merchandise drawback
- Substitution & direct identification
- TFTEA claim preparation & filing
- Proof-of-export & recordkeeping support
Where we start
- Refund-opportunity assessment
- Historical entry review
- Privilege & accelerated payment setup
Defer and reduce duties in-zone.
Foreign Trade Zone administration that defers, reduces, or eliminates duties and improves cash flow for high-volume importers.
Zone operations
- Zone admin & operator support
- e214 admissions
- Weekly entry processing
- Inventory control & reconciliation
- Duty deferral, inversion & elimination strategy
- Compliance & audit readiness
7512 in-bond moves across North America.
CBP Form 7512 in-bond transportation between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico — T&E, IE, and IT movements managed end to end.
In-bond services
- Transportation & Exportation (T&E)
- Immediate Exportation (IE)
- Immediate Transportation (IT)
- US / Canada / Mexico movements
- Bonded carrier coordination
- In-bond arrival & export reconciliation
Wine and alcohol, cleared end to end.
Customs clearance for wine and alcohol imports, coordinating CBP entry with TTB and FDA requirements so shipments don't stall at the border.
What we coordinate
- TTB importer basic permit guidance
- COLA label-approval coordination
- FDA Prior Notice filing
- Federal excise tax handling
- HTS classification by varietal & volume
- Bonded movement and temperature-sensitive logistics interface
Temporary imports without permanent duty.
Support for goods entering the U.S. temporarily — trade-show displays, samples, and professional equipment — under carnet or Temporary Importation Bond.
Temporary entry support
- ATA Carnet processing
- Temporary Importation under Bond (TIB / Type 23)
- Bond structuring for temporary entries
- Re-export tracking & closeout
- Carnet claim support
Support before and after the entry clears.
Post-entry corrections, protests, rulings, and audit response that keep importers on the right side of CBP.
Post-entry & compliance
- Post Summary Corrections (PSC)
- Protests under 19 U.S.C. 1514
- CF28 / CF29 responses
- CBP binding ruling requests
- Prior disclosure support
- Compliance audits & risk reviews
- Reconciliation
Bond solutions from multiple sureties.
Single-entry and continuous bonds sized to your import profile, with new applications and sufficiency monitoring.
Bond coverage
- Single Entry Bonds
- Continuous Bonds
- High-value (>$1M) bonds
- ISF bonds
- New bond applications
- Bond sufficiency monitoring & planning
Not sure which program fits your shipment?
Tell us what you're importing and how it moves. We'll map it to the right entry, bond, and savings strategy.
Common questions
Do I need a continuous bond or a single transaction bond?
It depends on how often you import, not on how large any one shipment is. A single transaction bond covers one entry. A continuous bond covers a year of entries and is sized on your annual duty, taxes and fees.
The crossover is arithmetic: once you are filing regularly, buying a bond per shipment costs more than covering the year. If you are clearing one parcel, a continuous bond is not what you need and we will say so.
What is the difference between a customs broker and a freight forwarder?
A forwarder arranges transport. A customs broker is licensed by CBP to transact customs business — filing entries, classifying goods, declaring value — on an importer's behalf under a power of attorney.
Many firms do both, and where they are separate the distinction matters: a forwarder cannot make your entry and does not carry customs liability. It is worth knowing which licence you are actually buying.
Can you clear at any U.S. port?
Yes. We file nationally, and the entry goes to the port where the goods actually arrived.
That is not always the port nearest you, and the difference catches people out — a parcel addressed to Alabama can be held at a mail facility in New York, and the filing follows the goods rather than the address.
Can I get back duty I have already paid?
Sometimes, and importers leave a great deal of it unclaimed. If you import goods and then export them — the same goods, or goods manufactured from them — drawback returns 99% of the ordinary duty and of Section 301 duty.
Two caveats worth hearing early. Section 232 duty is carved out and is not refundable, which for a metals importer is most of the bill. And drawback is a records exercise: the claim is only as good as the trail linking the import to the export.
Is a foreign trade zone worth it for us?
For most importers, no, and we would rather say that than sell you a zone.
A zone defers duty on inventory you have not sold, removes it on goods you re-export, and can lower the rate where manufacturing changes the classification — though not where the goods carry a trade remedy. The honest test is whether your annual duty deferral exceeds the cost of running zone inventory control. For a company with modest volumes and predictable sales, it does not.
How quickly can you file?
Once your documents and funds are in order, filing is not the slow part — it is usually same or next business day.
What sets the timetable is everything upstream: a valid power of attorney, an importer record with CBP, a complete document set, and any other agency's requirements identified before the goods arrive rather than after. Files that run late almost always run late for one of those reasons.