Daily QSP quota status, before it matters too late.

CBP updates this once a week, so the real-time figure is already higher. Subscribers get the current fill level every morning, with the projected fill date and the daily pace.

In July 2026, the U.S. imposed a Section 201 safeguard tariff-rate quota (TRQ) on imports of Quartz Surface Products (QSP), effective August 15, 2026. Every entry within quota clears at the in-quota duty rate — but the moment a tranche's prorating threshold is crossed, the rate doesn't step up gradually. It jumps, immediately, on every unit that follows.

There's no grace period, and CBP gives no advance warning beyond its weekly status report.

CBP does publish fill data, but only once a week, in a long multi-page report that's easy to miss, and it tells you nothing about where the pace is headed. By the time a new report comes out, it's already days behind. This tracker turns the data into a daily signal, so you see the threshold coming days in advance, instead of finding out your duty rate just doubled.

Knowing where the quota stands is a planning input, not just a rate-hike warning. If you can see a tranche approaching its threshold days out, you can time purchase orders and shipments to land before that window closes, instead of discovering after the fact that a container arrived just as the quota shut. For anyone sourcing QSP on a schedule, that's the difference between building the quota into your supply chain plan and being caught by it.

Under a TRQ, the threshold marks the volume of goods allowed in at a reduced duty rate. Once that volume is crossed, additional shipments are still allowed to enter — they just face a much higher duty rate on everything past that point. This is the mechanism behind the QSP quota this tool tracks.

TRQs are processed first-come, first-served based on an exact presentation timestamp. That timestamp is set by whichever of three events happens last: the electronic transmission of the entry summary, the cargo's confirmed arrival at the port, and the scheduled duty payment. Filing paperwork early doesn't secure a place in line on its own — the shipment has to have actually arrived.

When a tranche opens (as this one does quarterly), CBP treats every valid entry filed between midnight local port time and 8:30 AM Eastern on the opening date as arriving at the exact same moment — this is standard CBP quota administration under 19 CFR 132, not specific to any one product. If the combined volume of those opening entries exceeds the full tranche, no single importer gets priority: CBP prorates automatically, so every importer in that window gets a share of their requested volume at the in-quota rate, with the remainder at the higher rate.

If CBP rejects an entry summary for an error — a typo, missing documentation, an unpaid fee — the placeholder in line is lost. The corrected filing gets a new presentation time from the moment it's resubmitted, not the original one. Accuracy on the first attempt matters as much as speed.

Entry isn't blocked — under a TRQ, the shipment can still be entered, just at the higher over-quota duty rate (up to 50% for this safeguard). One common workaround doesn't apply here, though: for many tariff-rate quotas, importers can hold goods in a Foreign Trade Zone to wait for the next quota period, but the July 2026 proclamation for this specific safeguard closes that off — QSP admitted to an FTZ under privileged foreign status is still subject to the applicable quota restriction and duty at the time of entry for consumption. Simply leaving the container at the terminal and paying demurrage isn't an open-ended option either: cargo has to be entered within 15 calendar days of arrival, or CBP moves it into General Order bonded-warehouse custody, which carries its own storage and handling fees — typically higher than ordinary demurrage, running until entry is finally made — and the next quota period isn't guaranteed to have room either. Given what's at stake per shipment, this is exactly the kind of situation worth modeling out and confirming with a licensed customs broker before the goods arrive, not after.