Release Notes

Overview of latest product updates, grouped and ordered by release date.

13.05.2025

Description	Reference
Duty & Taxes: Enabled and activated the exclusion of products of China (or Hong Kong) origin to benefit from U.S. “de minimis” clearance (for shipments valued under 800 USD).	CBTS-3507
Duty & Taxes: Changed the TCC response to return a quote per configured delivery option if no specific delivery type is requested.	CBTS-3628
Product Classification: Added an indictor to the TCC quote if ad-hoc product classification has been applied.	CBTS-3566
Label Generation: Extended our DHL integration to support dangerous goods flagging on the shipping label.	CBTS-3614
Label Generation: Added paperless mode support with carrier Chronopost. The success of the FTP transfer gets indicated on shipment level in the Extranet order details.	CBTS-3617
Label Generation: Added support for generating Deutsche Post labels.	CBTS-3611
Label Generation: Changed the requested signature type from ADULT to DIRECT for FedEx shipments.	CBTS-3659
Address Transliteration: Improved the quality of first & last name transliterations from Japanese to English.	CBTS-3636
Manifest: Enabled triggering the creation of multiple consolidated shipments per day (for the same destination) with UPS World Ease.	CBTS-3613
Added flexibility to configure the shipping advice 'Terms of trade' text on route level.	CBTS-3621
Added a text-based alternative to signature images on the shipping advice.	CBTS-3589

15.04.2025

Description	Reference
Duty & Taxes: Implemented full support of reciprocal tariffs as introduced in the third wave of Trump tariffs. The new framework allows to respond fast to any changes by making any conditioned duty uplifts fully configurable.	CBTS-3507
Duty & Taxes: Switched to calculating U.S. sales taxes always on the purchase value alone. Estimated duties will no longer be added to the sales tax calculation base.	CBTS-3581
Duty & Taxes: Added indicator to the TCC response (on product level) if any tax exemption (such as reduced or zero VAT or sales tax) has been applied.	CBTS-3603
Duty & Taxes: Added (the only) missing U.S. state North Dakota to the U.S. sales tax "economic nexus" configuration.	CBTS-3601
Duty & Taxes: Enabled applying and displaying dynamically requested carrier shipping rates in the TCC responses.	CBTS-3584
Label Generation: Added note “This shipment does not contain any materials with an origin of Russia.” to the shipping advice for shipments to Spain, to avoid customs clearance delays.	CBTS-3593
Manifest: Integrated FedEx' new API generation Consolidation API to create a master label for FedEx' International Priority DirectDistribution (IPD) parcel consolidation service.	CBTS-3485
Extranet: Enabled downloading the T&D calculation "Accounting report" from the order details page for orders for which Glopal does not manage shipping.	CBTS-3597

25.03.2025

Description	Reference
Duty & Taxes: Implemented Canadian 25% duty uplift, imposed on selected US origin products.	CBTS-3507
Duty & Taxes: Added city as optional argument to refine US sales tax calculation, relevant in cases where towns with shared ZIP code apply different city tax rates.	CBTS-3554
Label Generation: Avoiding overlaps of longer ship-to addresses with the new Doc Box on UPS World Ease shipping labels.	CBTS-3556
Address Transliteration: Consistently applying Japanese address suffixes (eg. -ku, -shi, -gun) in transliterations of Japanese addresses to English, in order to reduce average string length and cases of carrier address field limit violations.	CBTS-3527

04.03.2025

Description	Reference
Duty & Taxes: Implemented second wave of Trump tariffs, increasing the additional ad valorem duty on U.S. imports of China (and Hong Kong) originating products from 10% to 20%, (on top of previously already existing U.S. China tariffs).	CBTS-3548
Label Generation: Introduced the possibility to hide the brand name on the carrier label (and instead use a carrier approved incognito name) to avoid parcel thefts.	CBTS-3495
Label Generation: Enabled creating shipping advices in the Extranet portal with external carrier tracking numbers.	CBTS-3530
Address Transliteration: Started accepting non-latin characters as state input (for example Japanese state Akita: 秋田).	CBTS-3527
Replaced numerical address IDs with 40-character hexadecimal identifiers across API endpoints for improved data security.	CBTS-3331

11.02.2025

Description	Reference
Duty & Taxes: Supporting first wave of Trump tariffs, calculating additional 10% ad valorem duty on U.S. imports of China (and Hong Kong) originating products.	CBTS-3490
Duty & Taxes: Updated TCC to return duty and tax quotes in the order or product currency (instead of USD) if no specific response currency is requested in the API's wants section.	CBTS-3480
Duty & Taxes: Expanded coverage of L'Octroi de Mer tax calculation for shipments to Overseas France regions, covering now (1) imports from non-EU countries, (2) reverse duty & tax calculation, and (3) exclusion of L'Octroi de Mer from the VAT calculation base. A breakdown of "octroi de mer" and "octroi de mer régional" has been added to the TCC API response.	CBTS-3471
Duty & Taxes: Added new error code US_POST_CODE_STATE_MISMATCH if the US state and ZIP code in the TCC quote request are not aligned.	CBTS-3470
Duty & Taxes: The application of children clothing VAT exemption on UK imports no longer is flagged as preferential treatment in the TCC API response.	CBTS-3421
Product Classification: Adjusted the tcc.classify API to return only known HS codes of higher precision (8 or more digits). If the requested precision is not known or does not exist, the highest available HS code precision is returned.	CBTS-3478
Activated obfuscation of any buyer personally identifiable information (PII) 6 months after order creation.	CBTS-3318

28.01.2025

Description	Reference
Duty & Taxes: Enabled applying trade agreements when the origin and destination countries are the same, in alignment with common trade agreement principles.	CBTS-3415
Duty & Taxes: Eliminated the duty and tax breakdown from TCC API responses in cases when the de minimis rule is applied and the duty or tax charge is consequently zero.	CBTS-3442
Duty & Taxes: Updated New York sales tax exemptions on clothing and footwear.	CBTS-3433
Duty & Taxes: Corrected an error in the reverse calculation of duties and taxes that occurred in special cases when excise taxes were applied.	CBTS-3315
Product Classification: Enabled requesting 12-digit HS code classification with the tcc.classify API, relevant for several Arab league member states since start of 2025.	CBTS-3457

14.01.2025

Description	Reference
Duty & Taxes: Added calculation of additional tariffs on China origin products imported to the United States ("US China Tariff"). Added break-down of duty charges (general and penalty) to the TCC API responses, and added option to configure default country of origin by account.	CBTS-3296
Duty & Taxes: Added calculation of Brazil's PIS and COFINS import taxes, both calculated on CIF value, and added support of the "grossed up" calculation method for Brazilian state-specific VAT ("IMCS").	CBTS-3370
Duty & Taxes: Added calculation of additional duty charges in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), covering statistical tax and community levies, all calculated on the CIF value and added to the VAT base.	CBTS-3428
Duty & Taxes: Added detailed break-down of tax components to the TCC quote (including VAT), reported in the tax_charges section in the TCC API responses.	CBTS-3341
Duty & Taxes: Abandoned state code validation in cases where the state code has not relevance to tax calculations.	CBTS-3315
Product Classification: Improved the quality of ad-hoc classifications during preparation of TCC quotes.	CBTS-3408
Extranet: Added a "Warning" icon next to dangerous good SKU lines in the order details view.	CBTS-3380
Extranet: Added displaying the paperless mode ("Data Mode" or "Doc Mode") on the order details view for paperless shipments.	CBTS-3304
Introduced mandatory obfuscation of any buyer personal identifiable information (PII) after 6 months in storage.	CBTS-3318

12.11.2024

Description	Reference
Duty & Taxes: Retired the special personal use valuation rule (60% of purchase price), applied to imports into Japan, to guarantee compliance.	CBTS-3339
Duty & Taxes: Aligned the product duty rate with the returned duty amount, to return 0% for applied duty de minimis (or in case of domestic shipments).	CBTS-3317
Product Classification: Improved the default assignment of 8 and 10-digit HS codes to ensure a valid HS code gets assigned in all cases.	CBTS-3341
Added the ability to update a product's country of origin (and manufacturer ID) at fulfilment via immediate_shipment API request to support shipping of multi-sourced products.	CBTS-3315
Extranet: Added a FAILED closeout section to the closeout page to simplify monitoring of closeout processing errors.	CBTS-3309
Extranet: Added displaying the UTC timezone next to the confirmed carrier pick-up time to avoid ambiguities.	CBTS-3304
Extended an existing e-mail alert to inform about a failed automated carrier pick-up scheduling. The provided link allows the user to manually schedule a new pick-up date/time.	CBTS-3305

15.10.2024

Description	Reference
Duty & Taxes: Adjusted quote for domestic and intra EU-shipments to display zero duty rate along with the zero duty charge.	CBTS-3295
Product Pricing: Prepared the calculate_product API for integration in an external (international) product pricing service.	CBTS-3269
Product Classification: Enhanced category to HS code mapping feature to support country-specific HS codes with higher precision.	CBTS-3278
Product Classification: Expanded product translation beyond product title and description to all other product details (category, materials and gender) to improve classification accuracy for non-English product details.	CBTS-3276
Product Classification: Introduced auto-trimming of product details in bulk request files to prevent classification errors due to overlong descriptions.	CBTS-3282
Temis Luxury: Added support of ECOPack box labels.	CBTS-3267
Extranet: Enhanced order shipment status view to display both international and last-mile carrier tracking events.	CBTS-3289

01.10.2024

Description	Reference
Duty & Taxes: Added support of trade agreement specific de-minimis thresholds (eg. for the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement).	CBTS-3150
Duty & Taxes: Refined the duty preference handling to consistently apply customs union preferential rates, regardless of the account's free trade agreement configuration.	CBTS-3247
Enhanced the calculate_order API response to include the name of the applied trade agreement in new argument <preference_source>.	CBTS-3250
Enhanced the address street length limit from 50 to 70 characters across all relevant APIs to reduce cases of required manual intervention.	CBTS-3215
FedEx: Started supporting label creation for dangerous goods (eg. perfumes) with FedEx.	CBTS-3254
UPS: Introduced the automatic next-day rescheduling of UPS pickups in case of rejected same-day pickup requests.	CBTS-3253
Extranet: Converted the 'B2B2C' order details flag (YES or NO) into a shipment 'Type' field with possible values 'B2B', 'B2C', and 'B2B2C', to clearly flag B2B orders.	CBTS-3097
Extranet: Adapted the order details status section to consistently display any internal status changes along with external carrier events.	CBTS-3245
Extranet: Enhanced the admin route details page with improved hub, delivery type, and carrier service information for clearer logistics overview.	CBTS-3221
Extranet: Added a 'Back to hubs' button on the admin hub details page to improve system navigation.	CBTS-3242

10.09.2024

Description	Reference
New Carrier: Integrated Landmark as new carrier option for outbound shipments.	CBTS-3198
Extranet: Added flag "Note: Risky Item(s)" to the closeout overview and detail pages to closeouts that contain products flagged risky (eg. for being selected for customs inspection).	CBTS-3220
Extranet: Relaxed hub access on the closeout history page, allowing users without hub access restrictions to access all closeout records.	CBTS-3212
Extranet: Added the carrier as new filter option to the order overview.	CBTS-3199
Extranet: Introduced the requirement for new Extranet accounts to change their initial password upon first login.	CBTS-3186
Extranet: Introduced a new reset password link/email option for Extranet accounts. Glopal admin users can now send a unique, time-limited link for password resets.	CBTS-3185
Extranet: Started to filter duplicate address records in the previous addresses section on the 'edit address' page.	CBTS-3147
Enhanced the address name length limit from 50 to 70 characters across all relevant APIs, to reduce manual error handling.	CBTS-3215
FedEx: Adapted the FedEx integration to use the order reference instead of the internal shipment ID as 'Customer Reference', to simplify invoice reconciliation for our clients.	CBTS-3223
UPS: Re-enabled automatic fallback for UPS services, restoring functionality impacted by the migration to the REST API.	CBTS-3214
UPS: Removed outdated UPS service codes.	CBTS-3202

15.08.2024

Description	Reference
Removed outdated UPS service code mappings.	CBTS-3202
Extended the immediate_shipment API response to include the return shipping invoice when it is available.	CBTS-3200
Made the manifesting call to EasyPost optional, depending on the underlying carrier.	CBTS-3172
Product Classification: Extended the bulk product classify response file to contain the merchant SKU of the unsuccessfully classified product, to allow better linking the error line to the request.	CBTS-3171
Product Classification: Extended the string length limit for the materials tag in the classify API request from 100 to 255.	CBTS-3170
Strengthened the validation for items entering alternative product SKU list.	CBTS-3163
Simplified the Extranet portal user role management by introducing 3 standard roles (manager, operator, viewer).	CBTS-3154

23.07.2024

Description	Reference
On the Extranet order processing page, introduced a new column titled "Custom Documents" to display required customs documentation codes (e.g., COO or CITES).	CBTS-3134
Improved the shipment tracking event descriptions for label generation and customs handling on the Extranet order details page format.	CBTS-3132
Enabled the possibility to configure the dangerous goods handling per outbound route.	CBTS-3130
Enhanced tax & duty quoting without shipping route configuration, by ignoring the origin hub if provided.	CBTS-3129
Supported to store and share shipment tracking numbers without tracking URL.	CBTS-3122
Introduced the option to pass a backup phone number to the carrier if the buyer did not provide a phone number. The default phone number can be configured by country.	CBTS-3118
Enabled the use of the parcel-attached return shipping advice for partial returns, leaving the returned quantity and shipment value for the buyer to fill in case of a return.	CBTS-3113

04.07.2024

Description	Reference
Updated the submitted DHL local product code as advised by DHL (from P to S) for deliveries to the United Kingdom.	CBTS-3111
Enabled access to the Receipts report via Extranet. See new section 'REPORTS'.	CBTS-3109
Enabled access to the POD report via Extranet. See new section 'REPORTS'.	CBTS-3108
Added the option to configure by destination country if the input HS code should be truncated to the globally valid first 6 digits (eg. 4202313000 -> 420231).	CBTS-3101
Added the option to apply automatic language detection on the product description for the classify API service, to improve the classification result for product catalogues with language mix.	CBTS-3098
Updated the link to Glopal's new shipment tracking page in the tracking API response.	CBTS-3096
Optimised UPS API authentication process by implementing periodic OAuth token refreshing (as recommended by UPS).	CBTS-3093
Updated the Yamato Transport shipping manifest generation to comply with updated guidelines.	CBTS-3092
Disabled generating the return shipping invoice for domestic and intra-EU returns.	CBTS-3091
Added the option to configure the overwrite discount if the requested discount is 100% (in order to be customs compliant).	CBTS-3090
Introduced automatic DHL API request retries after initial timeouts to make the DHL API integration more robust, and for example avoiding unnecessary paperless fallbacks.	CBTS-3051