US Imports · Exports · Cross-Border

Every US port.
Every rail terminal.
Every border.

Ocean freight, customs entry, and tariff refunds — under one file, one broker, one phone number. Licensed NVOCC. Licensed customs broker. Headquartered in New Jersey.

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Entries filed · 12 mo
4,200+
TEU moved · 12 mo
6,800+
Active accounts
140+
Avg. quote response
< 1 hr
BILL OF LADING · SAMPLE LANES Live
Indicative transit times
SHANGHAI→NEW YORK / NJ
28–32 d
ROTTERDAM→NEW YORK / NJ
11–14 d
NEW YORK / NJ→HAMBURG
12–15 d
MONTERREY→LAREDO / TX
1–2 d
OCEAN · CROSS-BORDER · INTERMODALUPDATED 06:42 ET
GRAVITAS · MMXXVI · LADEN & CLEARED
FMC Licensed NVOCC
CBP Licensed Customs Broker
In-House Customs Attorney
Continuous Bond on File
National ACE Permit
ON OUR RADAR CAPE Phase 3 is live for IEEPA refunds on finally-liquidated entries where the importer holds its own CIT order; the CIT has certified a nationwide class for everyone else. Next date to watch: November 9, 2026, when the Section 301 China product exclusions are scheduled to lapse. Ask us where your entries stand. Subscribe to the quarterly brief →
Services

Everything between the
factory floor and your warehouse door.

A licensed broker, a bonded NVOCC, and a customs attorney under the same roof. We organize our services around what an importer actually needs — not how the industry traditionally bundles them.

If you're a freight forwarder outside the US looking for a destination handling agent — the page you want is here →

What makes us different

One license, one bond,
one file.

Most US importers run their freight, their customs, and their compliance through three different vendors — a forwarder, a broker, and a trade attorney. Each knows part of the picture; none owns the outcome. We run all three under one roof: FMC-licensed NVOCC, CBP-licensed customs broker, and an in-house customs attorney. Someone you can actually call when it goes wrong, and a team that already knows the file.

See how we handle compliance → Get a rate →
Core operational services Move the freight. Clear the customs. Run the compliance.
PILLAR 01

Move freight

FCL, LCL, cross-border ground, drayage, intermodal, and air freight. Carrier-neutral routing on price, transit time, and reliability. We show you what we pay, what we mark up, and why.

  • Ocean FCL — 20'GP, 40'GP, 40'HC, 45'HC, reefer, flat rack, hazmat (IMDG)
  • Ocean LCL — Weekly consolidations from major Asia & Europe gateways
  • Cross-border ground — Canada & Mexico, PAPS/PARS, USMCA, in-bond
  • Drayage & intermodal — Every US seaport, every Class I rail terminal
  • Air freight — Time-critical and high-value cargo, via vetted air partners
  • Project & OOG — Oversized, breakbulk, RoRo, on request
See active lanes → From market · transparent markup
PILLAR 02

Clear customs

Licensed CBP customs broker with national permit. ACE-filer, full message-set capability. We file the entry, manage the hold if one happens, and track every entry through liquidation.

  • CBP entry filing — CBP Forms 3461 & 7501 via ACE, all entry types
  • HTSUS classification — In-house specialists, binding rulings on request
  • ISF 10+2 filing — At least 24 hours before vessel loading at origin
  • Customs hold response — Named broker, 1-hour SLA on every hold
  • Bond management — Continuous bond up to $50M annual entered value
  • Liquidation tracking — Through day 314, with protest deadline alerts
See trade compliance → From $150 / HBL
PILLAR 03

Run compliance

Trade compliance is now an enforcement-heavy environment. CBP CF-28 volume is up, UFLPA detentions are concentrated in textiles and electronics, AD/CVD scope rulings change quarterly. We keep you in front of all of it.

  • PGA filings — FDA, USDA, FCC, EPA, FWS, CPSC, with PGA-specific expertise
  • Section 301 / 232 / 338 analysis — China list tracking, forced-labor tariff tiers, Canada Section 338 screening, exclusion eligibility, refund filings
  • UFLPA documentation — Chain-of-custody, supplier vetting, rebuttable-presumption
  • AD/CVD scope review — Pre-shipment scope check against active cases
  • FTA preference — USMCA, KORUS, ISFTA, CAFTA-DR, GSP qualification
  • Export compliance — EEI / AES Type 60, OFAC, BIS license review
See what we file → Bundled with brokerage
Strategic & advisory services When operational filing isn't enough — in-house legal counsel and recovery work.
In-house counsel

Trade & customs legal services

Most forwarders refer you out when a problem turns legal. We have a customs attorney in-house, on the same file as your broker — so when a CF-28 escalates or a penalty notice lands, you don't start over with a new firm at $750 an hour.

  • Penalty & liquidated-damages response — 19 USC 1592 / 1641 mitigation petitions and supplemental responses
  • Protests & prior disclosures — Protests under 19 USC 1514, voluntary disclosures under 19 USC 1592(c)(4), outside trade counsel coordinated when a matter heads to litigation
  • Binding rulings — Pre-import HTSUS, country-of-origin, and valuation rulings
  • Audit & seizure defense — Focused Assessments, CEE inquiries, IPR seizures and petitions for remission
Talk to our customs attorney → Most issues resolved without billable-hour engagement
Recovery work

Tariff & duty refunds

Most importers overpay. We audit your customs history and file the claims — led right now by IEEPA refunds after the Supreme Court ruling.

See the full recovery section ↓ Free audit · 25% contingency
Support services
Warehouse & FTZ Bonded storage · FTZ duty deferral · Amazon-prep
Cargo insurance All-risk coverage via marine insurance partners · 110% CIF
Trade consulting Landed cost modeling · supply-chain redesign · sourcing review
24/7 ops desk Vessel arrivals, customs holds, cross-border emergencies
Transparent pricing
Customs entry
from $150/HBL
Single-line entries. Volume tiers available for high-frequency importers.
Ocean freight
Market-competitive
Carrier-neutral routing. We show you what we pay, what we mark up, and why.
Tariff refund
25% contingency
Free audit. Paid only when you recover. No upfront fees, ever.
Where we move

In to the US. Out of the US.
Across the border. Every week.

FCL & LCL, both directions

Full containers and consolidated LCL on every lane we run. Weekly consolidations to and from the major US gateways, with door-to-door or port-to-port at your call.

Carrier-neutral routing

We book across Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, ZIM, Evergreen, ONE, and COSCO — routing by what serves your cargo, not by who pays us. Markup disclosed on every quote.

Port to door, unbroken

Ocean booking, B/L management, customs entry, drayage, and final-mile without hand-offs between four vendors. The brokerage and the freight desk sit together.

↓ Inbound to US / OCEAN

Shanghai → NY/NJ28–32 d
Ningbo → Los Angeles14–17 d
Shenzhen → Savannah30–33 d
Ho Chi Minh → Norfolk32–36 d
Mundra → NY/NJ26–30 d
Rotterdam → NY/NJ11–14 d
Hamburg → Charleston14–17 d

↑ Outbound from US / OCEAN

NY/NJ → Hamburg12–15 d
NY/NJ → Felixstowe10–13 d
Savannah → Rotterdam13–16 d
Los Angeles → Busan13–16 d
Los Angeles → Shanghai15–18 d
Houston → Santos16–20 d
Miami → Cartagena4–6 d

↔ Cross-Border / GROUND

Toronto → Chicago2–3 d
Montreal → NY/NJ1–2 d
Vancouver → Seattle1 d
Calgary → Detroit3–4 d
Monterrey → Laredo1–2 d
Mexico City → Dallas3–4 d
Guadalajara → El Paso2–3 d

Transit times are indicative. Don't see your lane? We quote any port pair to or from the United States — and any cross-border move with Canada or Mexico. Just ask.

US footprint

Every seaport. Every rail terminal.
Both land borders.

Real coverage at every major US trade node. Click a category to filter, hover any node for details. Pulsing markers indicate anchor terminals where we maintain daily standing operations.

ALASKA HAWAII New York / NJ Los Angeles / LB Savannah Houston Norfolk Charleston Seattle Tacoma Oakland Miami Port Everglades Baltimore Jacksonville New Orleans Mobile Philadelphia Wilmington DE Brunswick Newport News Hueneme San Diego Boston Portland OR Tampa Chicago Kansas City Memphis Dallas / FW Atlanta Columbus Cincinnati St. Louis Detroit Minneapolis Salt Lake City Denver Phoenix Portland Council Bluffs Harrisburg Houston Rail Birmingham Indianapolis Cleveland Pittsburgh Nashville Tucson San Antonio Spokane Buffalo / Niagara Detroit / Windsor Port Huron Champlain Sweetgrass Pembina Blaine Calais Laredo El Paso Otay Mesa Calexico Brownsville Nogales Eagle Pass Pharr

Container pickup at every node above. Drayage relationships at every active terminal. Get a rate for any lane →

24+
US seaports
NY/NJ and LA/Long Beach as anchors. Coverage at every AAPA top-20 container port plus regional gateways.
24+
Class I rail terminals
Chicago, Memphis, Kansas City as inland anchors. BNSF, UP, CSX, NS, CN, CPKC interchange across the network.
16+
Land border crossings
Northern and southern borders. PAPS/PARS for Canada, CAAT/SAAI for Mexico, USMCA throughout.
US trade compliance

The ocean leg is easy. The US border is where forwarders lose you a week.

The United States is the most regulatorily complex trade gateway on earth — CBP, FDA, USDA, FCC, EPA, FWS, CPSC, plus Section 301/232 tariffs, AD/CVD orders, UFLPA enforcement, and export controls under EAR and OFAC. Cross-border land moves add another layer: PAPS, PARS, USMCA certificates of origin, in-bond filings, and bonded-carrier requirements — and, since August 2026, Section 338 duties and import bans on covered Canadian goods that USMCA origin does not cure. A misclassified entry or a missed PAPS filing is a five-figure problem.

Our brokers sit on the same files our ocean and ground teams book, which means classification, PGA flags, FTA preference qualification (USMCA, KORUS, ISFTA, CAFTA-DR, and GSP where eligible), and licensing review happen before the move starts — not after the truck rolls or the manifest hits. We monitor every entry through liquidation (typically day 314) and flag protest deadlines proactively. Inbound, outbound, or cross-border, you hear from a named broker on our team — not a ticket number, not a portal.

< 1 hr
Quote response · business hours
24 / 7
Live ops coverage · vessel arrival

We support clients pursuing their own CTPAT certification and ISA (Importer Self-Assessment) eligibility — including Trade Compliance pillar implementation for those seeking the enhanced benefits.

What we prep for every move
Landed-cost estimator · live

Describe your goods.
See the duty in seconds.

Tell us what you're importing in plain English. We'll classify it and break the duty out line by line — the base HTSUS provision plus every Section 301, 232, and forced-labor code that stacks on top — then estimate your landed cost. No login, no sales call to get a number.

Your estimate appears here. Describe the goods, pick an origin, and run it.

Tariff lineDuty
Total duties
Est. landed cost
This is a directional estimate, not a customs ruling. Our licensed broker confirms the exact classification and rate before you commit.
Get this verified by our broker →

Estimates are generated from the product description you provide and current US duty schedules, for planning purposes only. They are not a binding customs classification, ruling, or guarantee of admissibility or final duty. Actual HTSUS classification, duty rates, AD/CVD scope, and PGA requirements are determined on the entered goods by US Customs and Border Protection. Confirm with a licensed customs broker before relying on any figure.

Case studies

Real work.
Anonymized clients.

Case 01 · Ocean Freight · Representative
$0D&D
Demurrage & detention · 38 containers
38 peak-season containers, Ningbo to LA/LB, without a dollar of demurrage.

The importer came to us off a forwarder whose boxes sat at the terminal past free time most weeks. We split the program across two carriers on carrier-neutral bookings, filed ISF at T-24h and entries pre-arrival, and ran pre-pulls against both free-time clocks with chassis lined up before discharge. 38 containers over 90 days: average dwell 1.4 days, no demurrage, no detention.

Method: Carrier-neutral FCL + pre-arrival entry + drayage free-time optimization
Industry
Home furnishings · FCL
Origin lane
Ningbo → LA/LB
Case 02 · Customs Hold
11hr
Hold resolution time
FDA-flagged container of personal care goods cleared in under a business day.

A skincare brand's first shipment from Korea was held at NY/NJ for missing FDA prior-notice documentation. The previous broker had filed without the cosmetic ingredient disclosure. We re-filed with proper FDA Form 2877, OASIS submission, and ingredient list. Container released the same business day. Demurrage avoided: ~$3,200.

Method: FDA prior notice correction · OASIS re-submission · same-day release
Industry
Cosmetics / Personal care
Lane
Korea → NY/NJ
Case 03 · Tariff Refund
$340K
Recovered for client
Brooklyn apparel importer recovers Section 301 duties across 14 entries.

An apparel importer brought 3 years of CBP entries from a Vietnam-to-NY/NJ lane. We identified 11 line items eligible for Section 301 product exclusions, plus 3 HTSUS misclassifications that had been overpaying by 7.5%. Refund filed and paid in 142 days.

Method: Section 301 exclusion + HTSUS reclassification + PSC
Industry
Apparel · Knitwear
Origin lane
Vietnam → NY/NJ
Case 04 · Drawback
$1.2M
Recovered for client
Midwest electronics distributor claims 5 years of unused duty drawback.

A distributor importing consumer electronics from China and re-exporting roughly 40% to Canada and Mexico had never filed drawback. We assembled the claim covering imports within the 5-year TFTEA window, matched them to corresponding exports via ACE, and filed under 19 U.S.C. § 1313(j) Unused-Merchandise Drawback. Recovery covered 99% of duties, MPF, and HMF on re-exported goods, less the 1% statutory retention.

Method: § 1313(j) unused-merchandise drawback · ACE Drawback Module · 5-year TFTEA lookback
Industry
Consumer electronics
Re-export lane
US → Canada / Mexico
Client names and identifying details omitted under confidentiality. Recovery amounts are accurate. References available on request under NDA.
Tariff & duty refund

Recover duties
you should never have paid.

Most importers leave money on the table. Refunds on IEEPA tariffs the Supreme Court struck down, Section 301 China exclusions, HTSUS misclassifications, eligible drawback on re-exported goods, post-summary corrections, reconciliation, and first-sale valuation — the federal government holds billions in recoverable duties that importers never claim.

We don't just file your entries. We audit your last five years of customs history, identify every recovery opportunity, and run the appropriate filing — PSC, protest, exclusion request, classification ruling, prospective ruling, or drawback claim — through to refund check.

IEEPA Tariff Refunds

Supreme Court struck them down — reciprocal & fentanyl duties recoverable via reliquidation

Section 301 Refunds

China tariff exclusions (extended to Nov 2026) & refunds via CBP & CIT rulings

Duty Drawback

Up to 99% of duties, MPF & HMF on re-exported, destroyed, or manufactured goods (less 1% statutory retention)

HTSUS Reclassification & Valuation

Wrong tariff line or dutiable value means overpaid duty. First-sale valuation where supply chain qualifies.

Post-Summary Correction

Pre-liquidation errors corrected within 300 days of entry — refund issued without protest

Protest & Reconciliation

Post-liquidation refund claims under 19 USC 1514 · Recon for entries flagged at entry filing

Our promise
We work on contingency. We get paid only when you get paid — a percentage of what we actually recover. Zero risk, zero upfront cost, zero excuses.
Typical timelines
Initial audit: 2-3 weeks. IEEPA refund via CAPE declaration: generally 60-90 days after CBP acceptance. PSC refund check: ~120 days from filing. Section 301 exclusion refund: 120-180 days. Drawback refund: 8-18 months (subject to ACE Drawback Module backlog).

Estimate your recovery

Indicative · No commitment
$
Enter your annual duties paid to see an estimated recovery range.
Request a free audit → tariff@gravitaslogistics.com
Process

From inquiry to delivered.
No black box.

i

Inquiry

You send cargo details, commercial invoice, and target ready date. A named broker is assigned to your file — not a queue, not a ticket.

Within 1 business hour
ii

Quote & Classify

Full landed-cost quote: freight, fuel, BAF, terminal, customs entry, duty estimate. HTSUS classification confirmed and PGA flags identified.

Within 4 business hours
iii

Book & Move

Booking confirmed with carrier, origin pickup arranged, ISF filed at least 24 hours before vessel loading. Milestones pushed to your inbox.

ISF: T-24h before load
iv

Clear & Deliver

Entry filed pre-arrival. Drayage dispatched within 6 hours of container available. Demurrage and detention actively managed.

Drayage: T+6h of availability
Switching to Gravitas

Mid-shipment or mid-quarter, we don't break your flow.

Most clients ask the same question first: "How disruptive is switching?" The honest answer: not very. We coordinate with your current forwarder, run in parallel for a few shipments, and take over cleanly. No in-flight cargo dropped, no surprise gaps.

01 · Week 1
Document handoff

CBP Form 5291 (Customs POA) executed, continuous bond rider issued if needed, IOR number and EIN validated, ACE portal access reassigned, broker designation updated with CBP. We coordinate with your incumbent on in-flight entries so nothing falls through the cracks.

~ 3 business days
02 · Weeks 2-4
Parallel run

We handle one to three shipments alongside your existing setup. You see how we file, how we communicate, and how we resolve exceptions before fully transitioning.

1-3 shipments
03 · Weeks 4-12
Full transition

Carrier contracts, FMC tariff, customs entries, and drayage all migrate. Most clients are fully on Gravitas within 60-90 days. Mid-shipment hand-offs available for active customs holds.

60-90 days typical
Active carrier allocations
Maersk MSC CMA CGM Hapag-Lloyd ZIM Evergreen ONE COSCO
Direct service contracts · FAK and contract rates available
Credentials

The paperwork
that matters.

Get a rate

In to the US.
Out of it.
Or across the border.

Not a generic "we'll be in touch." Send us the commercial invoice or even just origin, destination, and approximate volume — you'll get a quote with freight, customs, and the right entry filings priced in (ISF, EEI, PAPS/PARS, USMCA — whichever applies).

Response in < 1 business hour during US East Coast hours. After-hours quotes returned by 9:00 AM ET.

Three fields. We'll call you.

Send the commercial invoice or fill the details below. We'll price freight, customs, and filings together.

Direction
Service
Operations center
Quotes & New Business
+1 (732) 401-9515 ops@gravitaslogistics.com
Email →
Tariff Audits
+1 (732) 401-9515 tariff@gravitaslogistics.com
Email →
Customs & Compliance
+1 (732) 401-9515 customs@gravitaslogistics.com
Email →
After-Hours Emergency
+1 (732) 401-9515 24/7 · Cargo holds · Vessel arrivals
Call now →

Headquarters

Port of NY/NJ region
368 Washington Road, Suite 4
Sayreville, NJ 08872
United States
Office hours · East Coast
Mon – Fri7:00 AM – 7:00 PM ET
Saturday9:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET
SundayOn call
Active shipments24 / 7 / 365

Move with weight.