If you are wondering whether goods coming to the U.S. are subject to antidumping duties, there is information available from the U.S. government which will help. See...

Donald Hatch entered into a plea agreement for export violations involving night vision equipment. Why question his intelligence? Well, first the company's website os reported to state that all shipments are made as gifts and are...

Purely Juice is a pomegranate juice manufacturer based in California. It was ordered to pay a $1.5 million judgment to a competitor for false and misleading claims. Claiming that its suppliers had given it faulty Certificates of...

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) changed is a program in which it tested containers for fumigant and solvent levels before allowing officers to enter them for inspection purposes. The program was originally put in place two...

Well, it certainly sounded like the fellow was hit with a stupid stick - according to a report dated July 23, 2008 on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s website, a Rolls-Royce was stolen from a bonded warehouse where it had been...

As countries such as Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam continue their efforts to restrict Internet access to their citizens,...

On July 16, 2008, CBP published a policy statement regarding how its officers are to conduct themselves when dealing with searches of laptops, PDAs and other electronic devices. See...

"China likely to increase textile tax rebates" is the headline screamed by China Daily on July 15, 2008. See www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-07/15/content_6848428.htm. China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) is quoted as...

Customs and Border Protection has released an updated draft of the ABI and AMS data sets for submission of the Importer Security Filing, commonly called 10 + 2. According to Customs' posting, these updates are the result of both...

Wondering what is going on in China? Take a look at english.gov.cn, the official government website, which posts most of its articles in English.

U.S. Customs established the C-TPAT program right after the events of 9/11. Since then, the World Customs Organization has adopted the AEO program. American traders, exporters in particular, have been after the U.S. to find a way...

Do you think one of your competitors is not complying with the U.S. import laws? If so, you will want to visit the Customs website and become familiar with e-Allegations which can be found...

The following article appears on the Reuters website at www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUST34238. Reuters holds the copyright on this story but it is being republished here strictly for informational purposes....

Customs Update: Big issues roil traders

July 2, 2008

By Susan Kohn Ross / The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINE©

International traders have for the most part been insulated from a lot of the issues roiling "big...

Under the guise of cleaning up the environment, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have each adopted a program which allows them to outlaw access to the port area for trucks of certain ages over the next few years. The big...

It is truly painful to watch the "gymnastics" the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are going through trying to figure out the cause of the current salmonella outbreak. Their...