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Customs Brokerage

Modern Customs Broker for Faster, Simpler Trade

From customs clearance to landed costs, get complete transparency across your entire supply chain with advanced analytics, historical data access, and instant milestone tracking—all in one platform. Let Flexport Customs Brokers reduce your costs and uncover duty savings opportunities.

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Flexport Fall Release 2025 Product Custom Suite

Introducing the Customs Technology Suite

A suite of products and tech to help forecast landed costs, surface real-time insights, improve product classification, provide duty minimization and avoidance, and enhance entry-filing compliance.

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Calculate tariffs with confidence

The Flexport Tariff Simulator Pro gives importers real-time data, insights, and transparency to make smarter, faster decisions in a complex global trade environment. With features like bulk uploads, smart notifications for tariff changes, and landed-cost calculations, users can instantly compute duties, identify special rates, and stay ahead of shifting trade policies.

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Data-Backed Decisions

Make data‑driven decisions on pricing, sourcing, and inventory management, and gain full visibility into import costs with SKU‑level landed cost reporting.

Proactive Clearance

Don’t just react to issues; prevent them from happening in the first place with experts who will identify potential problems in advance and take swift action to resolve them.

Save Money

Identify opportunities to save money without compromising compliance by enhancing your import strategy with duty avoidance and minimization strategies.

Transforming the Customs Process

Structuring complexity and turning it into opportunity.

We’re revolutionizing customs with AI-powered automation and seamless integrations, ensuring unmatched compliance and reliability for our customers. Our system digitizes and consolidates data for faster error resolution, improving accuracy and response times to create a more efficient, streamlined supply chain.

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Improve speed and accuracy with tech-enabled customs

Drive timeliness and high accuracy filing rates with forwarder agnostic capabilities (4PL) for any cargo shipment, HS code classification and duty optimization services.

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Optimize your import strategy

Access ingested and completed entries and historical data through customizable reporting and analytics. Proactively focus on duty minimization and avoidance opportunities for your business and always be ready for governmental and regulatory changes with industry experts guiding you through any landscape.

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Quick search at your fingertips

Search Everything. Stop at Nothing. Search for what you want—SKU, HS code, PO, style, or customs entry number—in any customs document. Then find it and related items all in one place. No more time lost bouncing between systems.

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Robust product library

Capture product data to speed imports. Simplify customs clearances through dynamic data associated with your products or SKUs. The secure Product Library is your central source of truth, enabling you and your customs broker to tackle exceptions immediately and identify saving opportunities through duty minimization and avoidance.

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Landed costs now within reach

Know exactly how much it costs to get a SKU into inventory. That’s a clear business advantage. Flexport makes calculating landed costs not only possible, but easy.

When it comes to tariffs and trade, 2025 has already proven to be a year of significant change and complexity. This guide dives into relevant importer strategies, tools, and technicalities—including ways to mitigate tariff impacts, reduce compliance risks, and recover costs where possible.

Navigating Tariffs in 2025: A Comprehensive Guide to Customs Duties, Taxes, and Cost-Saving Strategies

The Flexport customs brokerage process

Compliance Programs

Assessments & Data Analysis, Responding to CBP inquiries, Training, Prior Disclosures

Tariff Classification

Tariff Engineering, Binding Ruling requests, Complex Classification Projects

Customs Valuation

First Sale, Bona Fide buying agents, Transfer Pricing, Reconciliation

Duty Drawback

Unused Merchandise, Manufacturing, Rejected, Petroleum, and USMCA Same Condition

ACE Analysis

Classification Trends and inconsistencies, Potential compliance concerns, Cost saving opportunities

Duty Refund/Savings

Post Summary corrections, Protests, Free Trade Agreements

Country of Origin Analysis

Substantial Transformation, Origin Engineering

Trade Remedy

Section 301, 232, 201, including exclusions; Antidumping and Countervailing duty support

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Frequently Asked Questions

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