Compliance Consulting
You can date your forwarder.
Using multiple brokers doesn’t just split up your costs — it splits up your compliance. Every broker has a different system and a different gap. Mercantile consolidates it into one transparent, trackable place.
You should marry your broker.
The Problem With Multi-Broker Setups
It’s common for a growing company to end up with several brokers — sometimes without realizing it. The result is inconsistent inventory tracking, inconsistent ISF filings, and no single source of truth for compliance. One client didn’t call Mercantile before bypassing established process — and paid a $50,000 bond company penalty for a problem one conversation could have prevented.
Foreign Trade Zones and bonded warehouses come up in this review too. Both change when duty is owed and what records you have to keep, and Mercantile handles the compliance and filing side for goods moving through them. Standing up a new zone is specialist work, and that gets referred to ITC-Diligence International.
Mercantile’s compliance consulting takes a full look at bond, POA, documentation, and inventory tracking, and brings it into one system — Monday.com — so nothing falls through the cracks between brokers.
Proof
- All client activity managed through Monday.com — one portal, full visibility.
- Clients switching from multi-broker setups see immediate improvement in inventory tracking and ISF accuracy.
- Resolved an ACE portal account for a large client in days — a process that took eight months when the client tried on their own.
- A client paid a $50,000 bond company penalty after bypassing Mercantile — a problem one conversation could have prevented.