"An experienced team identifying every available tariff refund and savings opportunity with no effort by in-house personnel."

Global has helped companies throughout the United States to reduce significantly their overall tariff burden.  In the Customs Duty Refund Program, Global reviews a client's customs entries and, using targeted and sophisticated ruling and case law database research techniques, identifies imports that can be reclassified to lower duty rates, resulting in substantial tariff refunds and savings.  Global also identifies other duty savings opportunities available as a result of valuation issues, obscure customs rulings or little-used regulations.  Customs has estimated that nearly 80% of all customs entries contain errors.  The vast majority are misclassifications or other errors resulting in significant overpayments of customs duties.

Global obtains complete approval of the refunds or savings from U.S. Customs on the client's behalf and then forwards the refunds to the client as they are received.  Global also performs all the "leg work" required to review the documentation, resulting in no downtime for your staff.  This service is performed on a contingency fee basis, so the client pays nothing unless Global finds refund or savings opportunities.

Clients who take advantage of our Duty Refund Program also benefit from future savings on Customs duties. Once duty refund applications are approved by U.S. Customs, Global advises its clients of the proper tariff classification so that the clients can pay lower duty rates on all future shipments. This tariff savings improves our clients’ competitive positions.

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