Logistics support when a Section 337 order touches your supply chain

A USITC exclusion order can change the status of a shipment while it is already moving. Hovmar Logistics is a Shenzhen freight forwarder, not a law firm. Our role is the physical side: keeping cargo identifiable, keeping paperwork consistent, and giving your counsel a clean record of what happened to each carton.

Where we are useful

Most enquiries reach us after an importer has received notice and needs to know what is on the water, what is at the terminal, and what can still be redirected. We start by building one inventory of every affected booking, then agree with you which lots may move and which must wait.

Because the decision belongs to you and your legal advisers, we do not classify products or interpret orders. We execute the routing you approve and document each step.

• Sample and evidence consignments that need a traceable handover, seal number and photo record
• In-transit cargo that requires a hold at origin, a transhipment point or a destination warehouse
• Re-export, return-to-origin or bonded storage instructions once a shipment is stopped
• Carrier, broker and warehouse documents that must describe the same goods in the same way

A documented chain of custody

For evidence or sample movements we agree a written handling protocol before pickup: who receives the cartons, where they are sealed, which photographs are taken, and which reference number follows the file. The same reference appears on the booking, the export declaration and the warehouse receipt.

Where a shipment is held, we keep the arrival time, the storage location and the release instruction together so that a later audit does not depend on memory or on a single email thread.

How an engagement runs

Step one is a shipment inventory. Step two is a written routing decision from you. Step three is execution with the carrier, broker and warehouse. Step four is a closed file containing the documents issued at each handover.

Urgent consignments can move by air from Shenzhen or via a nearby hub; bulk lots usually stay in ocean freight or move into short-term storage while the commercial decision is made.

• Inventory: list bookings, containers, cartons and current status
• Decision: your written instruction on hold, release, redirect or return
• Execution: carrier amendments, customs paperwork, warehouse booking
• Closure: one indexed file with timestamps and document copies

Scope and limits

We do not provide legal opinions, predict USITC outcomes, or decide whether goods are covered by an order. Tax and customs classification questions are referred to your licensed advisers. What we do provide is a controlled, auditable movement of physical cargo from Shenzhen onward.