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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...

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...

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...

On May 30, 2008, the Census Bureau issued a reminder to the trade that all export data must now be reported through the Automated Export System (AES). The final rule implementing mandatory AES filing was published in the Federal...

A major focus for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been employer sanctions. Any time ICE conducts a raid, it selects the company to "visit" based on reliable information which leads the agency to believe individuals...

Relying on the authority of the 1950 Defense Production Act, the Dept. of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security has been asked by the Naval Air Command to assess the scope and impact of counterfeit electronics on U.S. supply...

On its website, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has clearly articulated its trade priorities for the current fiscal year. In alphabetical order, they are:

 1) Agriculture;

 2) Antidumping and Countervailing...