Logistics & trade compliance consulting
Freight that moves. Paperwork that holds up.
We plan the shipment, assign the right licensed customs broker and carrier from our partner network, and make sure the paperwork behind it still holds up years after the container is unloaded.
CBP indefinitely suspended it for every mode of transport on 24 June 2026. Every commercial shipment now needs a formal or informal entry and pays duty.
Applies to China-origin goods from 24 July 2026, stacked on top of the existing List 1–4A rates. Goods already under Section 232 are exempt.
If your product clears duty-free today under an exclusion, model the cost of losing it before you place a Q4 order.
DHS added 43 on 3 August 2026 across aluminium, apparel, copper, cotton and tomatoes. One listed supplier anywhere upstream stops your container.
Ocean · Air · Cross-border truck
One file, from the factory floor to your dock.
on the border
managed for clients
both sides of the border
on a quote request
What we do
One firm coordinating the specialists your shipment needs
CCS is a logistics consultancy and freight forwarder. We hold the relationships — licensed customs brokers, asset carriers, warehouses — and we run them as one file so you are not chasing five vendors for one container.
We are not a licensed customs brokerage. Classification, valuation and entry filing are customs business under federal law and are performed by the licensed customs brokers we introduce you to. You will always know who is filing your entry.
Customs clearance coordination
We get your file in front of the right licensed customs broker early, and keep it moving. Classification, valuation, origin and partner-agency questions are settled by them before the goods ship, not after the container is held.
Freight forwarding
Ocean FCL and LCL, air, and cross-border truck. We negotiate the rate, book the space, and give you one tracking thread instead of a carrier portal login you never use.
Transportation management
Drayage, transloading and inland moves planned around your delivery window — including the Juárez–El Paso crossing, where a two-hour scheduling error costs a day.
Los Angeles / Long Beach to El Paso
Most of our container volume runs this route. Ocean FCL into the San Pedro Bay ports, then rail or truck the 800 miles inland — with free time tracked so demurrage never becomes the surprise on the invoice.
Trade compliance consulting
Supplier and forced-labour due diligence, recordkeeping design, cost modelling once your broker confirms the code, and general customs training for your purchasing and logistics teams.
Crossing into Mexico
For shipments that do not stop in El Paso: southbound coordination through the El Paso and Santa Teresa crossings, plus warehousing and inventory positioning on either side for operations that cannot absorb a customs hold.
Who we work with
First-time importers
You found a supplier and now you need an importer record with CBP, a customs bond, a classification you can defend and a realistic landed cost. We line up the licensed broker and the surety who put those in place, and walk the first shipment through with you.
Maquiladora & manufacturing
Your line stops if a truck sits at the bridge — or if a box is still sitting in Long Beach. We plan the whole route, coast to plant, around production, and we keep the supplier and shipping documentation your broker and your auditors will ask for.
Established importers
You already import, but tariff changes have moved your margins and nobody has re-checked your classifications since 2019. We organise the review, bring in a licensed broker or customs attorney to make the calls, and tighten the process around them.
Container terminal at dusk
How a shipment runs with us
Six steps, one file, one person answering the phone
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Scope the move
What the goods are, where they are made, how much, and when they have to land. Most cost problems are decided here, before anything is booked.
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Get the classification settled
We assemble the technical detail a classification needs — materials, function, how it is assembled — and put it in front of a licensed customs broker. Once they confirm the code, we build the freight and landed cost around it, so you commit to the order knowing the number.
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Assign the broker and the carrier
We select from our partner network based on the lane, the commodity and the port — not on whoever answered first.
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File before arrival
We collect the supplier’s documents, check they agree with one another, and get them to your broker in time for the Importer Security Filing — which closes 24 hours before loading, not before arrival. Cargo that arrives with a complete file is cargo that keeps moving.
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Clear and release
Your broker files the entry and pays the duty. We track it, chase exams and holds, and get them whatever your supplier needs to send. If CBP asks a question, the answer is already in the file.
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Deliver and archive
Final mile to your door, then a complete entry record built to be pulled five years later — because that is how long you are required to keep it.
Free resource
Importing from China in 2026 has changed more than most importers realise
The duty-free threshold is gone. A new forced-labour tariff took effect in July. Exclusions expire in November. We wrote a plain-English guide with every step, every document, and links to the official source for each rule — so you can check our work.
Tell us what you are moving.
Send the commodity, the origin country, the volume and the date it has to land. We will come back with a route, a cost, and an honest note about the compliance questions worth settling with a broker before you order.