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Are you new to government export regulations? It can be quite challenging to get your hands around export compliance and export controls. This is especially true if export compliance is just one of your responsibilities. Where do you start among the hundreds of pages in the Code of Federal Regulations? What is really important and…

On Friday, September 30, 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published an Interim Final Rule (IFR) announcing interim regulations pertaining to the importation of pesticides and pesticidal devices into the United States, that are subject to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).   The IFR amends CBP’s regulations permitting the option to…

There have been a few cases of note that I have not yet reviewed. Call it Olympic Distraction Syndrome or Summer is Rapidly Ending Depression. Either way, I’ve read the cases so you don’t have to. First up, Zojirushi America Corp. v. United States, from the U.S. Court of International Trade. This case will go…

One of our critical roles as trade compliance professionals is to get out there and provide training to other process stakeholders (internal and external) on a periodic basis.  However, this critical and fundamental objective is often overlooked or neglected for a variety of reasons:   We’re too busy with normal operations We don’t have the…

Key Points U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has released the highly anticipated anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty evasion regulations, which promulgate an administrative procedure for investigating AD/CV duty evasion allegations that CBP must follow. The regulations will undoubtedly require an increased number of importers and foreign manufacturers to formally respond to CBP’s questions…

1) Do Not Take Practice Exams     The US Customs Broker’s license exam requires high reading comprehension skills and excellent time management.      Specifically, there are 80 questions and you have four and a half hours to get it done.  My Marshall University math tells me you have about three and a half minutes…

Being in the business of providing education for companies and individuals on Global Trade, we tend to get inquiries ranging anything from consulting questions on trade matters to requests on processing shipments, none of which we do but gladly point them to the right resources. One of the most common questions we get is how…

The Bureau of Industry has issued a final rule adopting new guidelines for resolving alleged violations of the Export Administration Regulations. The final rule includes a number of changes from the initial BIS proposal, discussed here, following consideration of public comments. As explained by BIS, the revised approach is intended to more closely resemble the…

This year we had the opportunity to exhibit and sponsor the Annual NCBFAA Conference which was held on April 17-21 in the beautiful JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort in Tucson, Arizona. The event was the largest attendance in the history of the organization’s conferences and also had a record ‘first-time’ attendees, of which we made…

We looked at a case where the risk of loss vs. passage of title is questioned to make a case for either party.  That is, does ownership infer risk of loss, or are the two terms mutually exclusive of one another? In this case (http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cases/020326u1.html), we have a seller in Germany who is sold an…