Customs bonds, sized to how you actually import

Continuous vs single entry, honestly

A single transaction bond covers one entry and is priced against that entry's value and duties. A continuous bond covers all your entries at all ports for a year, with a minimum size of $50,000, scaled up from roughly ten percent of the duties, taxes and fees you paid in the previous twelve months.

The crossover comes fast. Importers bringing in more than a handful of shipments a year almost always come out ahead on a continuous bond, and it also satisfies the ISF bond requirement, which single entry setups have to solve separately. We will run your last year of imports and tell you which side of the line you are on. We do not publish bond prices here because surety rates vary by importer; we quote yours before you commit.

When bonds go wrong

Bonds get stacked, saturated or flagged for insufficiency when duty exposure grows faster than the bond, and CBP can demand a bigger bond on short notice, stranding freight until it is posted. The special tariff years made this common: duty bills tripled and bonds sized for the old bills stopped clearing. As your broker we watch your bond sufficiency alongside your entries, so the letter from CBP never comes as a surprise.