A while back, Cyndee Cherniak posted an article about monetary seizures in Canada. The U.S. view is not all that different. The U.S. rule is that any money, monetary instrument (checks, money orders, etc), or other negotiable...
The old adage that time means money has many applications. One that has perhaps been often overlooked is how to quantify that in the context of goods movement.
In 2001, David Hummels at Purdue University sought to explain how...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the creation of a new Import Surveillance Division which is tasked with inspecting, detecting and stopping hazardous products from entering into the United States.
The...
An unusually large number of comments were filed by the public in response to Customs' advance data elements (10 + 2) proposal. The comment period closed March 18th. The great majority all make the same basic points.
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Effective September 30, 2008, all fruits and vegetables (and other named commodities) sold in the U.S. will have to be marked with their country of origin.
In 2002, the Farm Act amended the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to...
The Dept. of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security has started an on-line training service. It can be found at: www.bis.doc.gov/seminarsandtraining/seminar-training.htm.
This effort is quite new so there are not yet...
