Trade Compliance ·
How to Pull the ES-003 Report in ACE to Find Your IEEPA-Affected Entries
Pull the ES-003 report in ACE, filter for Chapter 99 codes 9903.01 and 9903.02, and size your IEEPA duty before you file a CAPE refund. Step by step.
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Tariffs & Duties ·
How to Calculate FTZ Duty Savings (and What the Official Worksheet Misses)
GingerControl walks importers through the four-part FTZ duty savings math, inverted tariff, scrap, deferral, and exports, plus the weekly entry MPF cap.
Trade Compliance ·
Customs Duty Audit: How Importers Find the Money CBP Never Will (2026)
A customs duty audit finds overpaid duty hiding in your own past entries: the 7501 fields to check, how to triage thousands of lines, where money hides.
Trade Compliance ·
What Is Duty Leakage? A Finance Leader’s Guide to Recovering Overpaid Import Duties
Duty leakage is the import duty a company overpays without knowing it. Learn the three sources, how it differs from duty drawback, and how to quantify yours in dollars.
Trade Compliance ·
When Your Customer Controls the Freight, Who Files the EEI? A Routed-Export and AES/EEI Filing-Governance Program
GingerControl explains routed export transactions: who files the EEI, how USPPI and FPPI liability splits under FTR 30.3, and governing AES filing.
Trade Compliance ·
The Target's Customs Liabilities Close With the Deal: An M&A Trade-Compliance Due-Diligence and Successor-Liability Program
GingerControl scopes M&A customs due diligence: successor liability, quantifying inherited 1592 and AD/CVD exposure, and prior disclosure pre-close.
Global Trade ·
Your FTA Claims Rest on Supplier Certificates You Can't Produce on Audit: A Supplier-Solicitation and Certificate-Management Program
GingerControl shows how to build an FTA supplier solicitation and certificate management program so no preferential claim collapses on a CBP audit.
Tariffs & Duties ·
Your Substitution Drawback Is Capped and Finance Never Modeled It: Applying the 'Lesser of Two' Rule Across a High-Volume Drawback Program
GingerControl breaks down the duty drawback lesser of two rule: the TFTEA substitution cap that under-recovers duty, and how to model it per lane.
HTS Classification ·
You Request Rulings One SKU at a Time While Duty-at-Risk Piles Up: A Binding-Ruling Portfolio Program Prioritized by Exposure
GingerControl shows enterprise trade teams how to build a binding-ruling portfolio program that prioritizes CBP ruling requests by duty-at-risk.
AI & Technology ·
New-Supplier Onboarding Stalls for Weeks Waiting on Data: Collecting Complete Supplier Records at Scale Without the Email Ping-Pong
GingerControl breaks down supplier onboarding automation: an agent emails suppliers, retrieves specs, certs, and validates them into your ERP.
Trade Compliance ·
Every HS Code and Origin Claim You File Rests on Data a Supplier Emailed You: Supplier Data Quality as the Foundation of Trade-Compliance Accuracy
GingerControl explains how supplier data quality drives trade compliance, shaping HS classification, country of origin, FTA, and valuation accuracy.
Global Trade ·
The Same Supplier Has Four Different Records Across Four ERPs: Reconciling Supplier Data Across Entities and Instances
GingerControl breaks down multi-ERP supplier data consistency: why a supplier becomes four ERP records and how an autonomous agent sources one value.