Last year, I did a
writeup on the Liberation Day tariffs. If you check the spoiler-tagged snippet at the very bottom, I rant extensively about how rapidly things changed, how customs brokerage software was failing to keep pace with all of the developments, and the ramifications therein. I wholeheartedly expect a repeat of this phenomenon to happen. Making matters even more annoying is how official guidance tends to be retroactive. So if Trump proclaims new tariffs to replace the reciprocal IEEPA tariffs, customs entries that were filed back in January or December will need to be updated to reflect the new instructions that CBP sends out. You know what that means? Compliance and operations teams are gonna be doing double time to make sure that both new entries getting filed match the new CBP instruction, and also resolving billing issues that emerge.