Flat fees
One number for the entry. No mystery ABI charges, no “document handling,” no after-the-fact disbursement theater. The dashboard is the invoice.
Licensed brokerage · Luxury Goods · High-Volume DTC · Complex Imports
Clearance that keeps the shipment moving.
We learned the file from the importer’s chair—navigating high-value cargo, massive multi-line invoices, and the Friday hold. Perrotta Customs Group is the solution we wished we had: a live customer dashboard, flat fees, and a licensed broker who still signs every 7501.
Get a Free Entry Audit See the servicesJFK, EWR, PHL first · LAX and Miami desks on the same file.
10 yrs
Managing complex luxury supply chains and high-stakes imports.
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Surprise disbursements. The fee on the dashboard is the fee you pay.
5 ports
JFK, Newark, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Miami — one operating picture.
1 screen
Landed cost, document vault, and PGA alerts. No weekly status call required.
Customer dashboard
The file, live. Not a PDF on Friday.
Legacy brokers hide the work in CargoWise and a monthly invoice. You see landed cost as the entry is built, which documents are in the vault, and which PGA will hold the belt — before the aircraft doors open.
Lean & nimble
The bloated model is the product. We threw it out.
You do not need a forty-person brokerage to clear a high-value shipment. You need a house-trained classifier, a dashboard, and a broker who answers before the hold becomes a missed trunk show.
Zero manual data entry
The commercial invoice is the source of truth. We extract lines, consolidate complex multi-part shipments (apparel blends, electronics, multi-tariff goods), and draft the 7501. A person still signs it.
Port-ready before wheels down
Kimberley, FWS eDec, and UFLPA tracing sit in the vault before JFK pulls the crate. Instant clearance is a posture, not a slogan.
Industry & desk
Clearance tailored to the goods.
We pair licensed brokerage with the facts of the merchandise — classification, PGA, ISF, and the 7501 on one file. The category changes. The desk does not.
See all fourteen verticals
Value splits, not a single heading.
Precious metal, stones, movements, and straps do not share a statistical suffix. Vague metal composition is a pause. Kimberley rides when the invoice earns it — and a licensed broker still signs the 7501.
Jewelry & horology
Fiber % is the classification.
A blended garment is multiple lines, not a guess. Missing fiber content or a China-touch cotton pack is a hold we flag before transmission — not after the belt. UFLPA tracing sits in the vault with the invoice.
Apparel & streetwear
Species first. Then the heading.
Unnamed leather is a pause. Exotic skins need FWS eDec and the foreign CITES permit before we transmit. Hardware, lining, and the bag itself often split — classification and PGA on the same file.
Leather & accessories
FDA Prior Notice is not optional.
We flag the requirement from the invoice description and block ACE until the packet is complete. Claims on the label do not replace the filing. Classification of the formula and the PGA ride together.
Cosmetics & skincare
Multi-tariff goods, one IOR.
Boards, housings, batteries, and accessories rarely share a heading. We split the line, keep the origin story straight, and size the bond to expected duty — not last year’s number.
Hardware & tech
Repeating SKUs. One continuous bond.
High-volume DTC is a practice, not a scramble. Continuous bonds, repeating classifications, and a dashboard the floor can read while the aircraft is still over the water. Status is not a Thursday email.
E-commerce
Parts are not “auto” as a heading.
Castings, electronics, textiles, and kits split across chapters. We classify the piece in the carton, not the machine it might meet later — then file 3461 / 7501 against that fact pattern.
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Nine motions. One licensed file.
We do not sell a 7501 and disappear. The same broker who assigns the HTS also stands the bond, files the ISF, and answers the CF-28. Your forwarder moves the crate — after we have cleared it.
01 · Classify & file
The entry is the last step, not the first.
- Tariff classification GRI 1–6. Multi-tariff splits. OCR on the long invoice. We pause rather than invent a suffix.
- PGA clearance FDA, EPA/TSCA, FWS/CITES, Lacey, Kimberley. In the vault before ACE.
- Entry preparation & filing 3461 for release. 7501 for the summary. Landed cost on the dashboard before the doors open.
02 · Admit & move
The crate leaves on your truck. After we have cleared it.
- Customs bond procurement Continuous for the DTC practice. Single-entry for the one-off. Sized to expected duty.
- Importer Security Filing (ISF 10+2) Ocean freight files before the vessel sails. 19 CFR 149 is a gate, not a courtesy.
- Forwarder & transit coordination Clearance before your truck arrives at the CES. We do not hide a late dray as a customs hold.
03 · Correct, defend, recover
Liquidation is not the end of the file.
- Post-summary corrections & protests PSC on the 300-day clock. Protest under 19 U.S.C. § 1514 on the 180-day clock.
- Audit defense & binding rulings CF-28 and CF-29 answered off the live belt. CROSS when the merchandise is novel.
- Duty drawback Up to 99% of duties on goods that later export or destroy. Claimed against the original entry.
From the floor
The weekly status call was the product. We replaced it.
“We used to learn about a Kimberley gap on a Friday email. Now it is a yellow line on the desk before the lot leaves Geneva.”
“A standard DTC packing list is 100+ lines. Our last broker charged us per line. The dashboard aggregated the exact HTS and origin codes before we even had to ask.”
“PHL used to mean a hold and a guess. We see landed cost while the aircraft is still over the Atlantic.”
U.S. import hubs
The ports that actually move luxury.
We do not pretend to be everywhere. We are fluent where luxury, complex entries, and DTC air actually land — and the dashboard follows the crate, not the other way around.
JFK · New York
High-Value Goods, Luxury, Complex Entries.
John F. Kennedy is still the jewelry door. We treat 19 CFR 12.140 as a gate, not a footnote, and we will not transmit until the certificate number is in the vault. Gold, platinum, and mounted stones split the way CBP already expects.
EWR · Newark
European Imports, Tech, Multi-Tariff Goods.
Newark Liberty takes the watch freight the maisons actually book. A gold watch is four classifications, not one. Houses that file a single 9101 line pay for it in CF-28s. We allocate before the 7501 is drafted.
PHL · Philadelphia
Leather, air DTC, east-coast volume
Philadelphia is the quiet luxury air lane — leather goods, small parcels, and DTC replenishment that should never sit for a “status.” If the packing list is in the vault, PHL is a same-day conversation.
LAX · Los Angeles
CITES, python, west-coast maisons
A python hold is not paperwork. It is a missed trunk show. FWS eDec and the foreign CITES permit have to exist before the 7501 — not after LAX pulls the belt.
MIA · Miami
Gold, Latin American origin, DTC scale
Miami moves massive DTC volume and high-value cargo in the same afternoon. We price the entry like a DTC operator, not a 1998 forwarder: landed cost on the dashboard, PGA flags before the pallet hits the CES.
The principal
Built by someone who has already sat in your production meeting.
Christian Perrotta spent five years running logistics on the importer’s side of the desk — global product launches, high-value air freight, and the particular silence that follows a Friday border hold. The incumbents were expensive because they were slow, and slow because they were crowded.
Perrotta Customs Group is the opposite: a nimble CHB practice with an AI-backed operating picture, not a consulting deck. Bring one commercial invoice. Leave with an entry audit.
The desk
Send the invoice. See the desk.
A free entry audit for jewelry, watches, leather, or DTC replenishment. We return classification notes, PGA flags, and a flat fee — no retainer theater.