On June 29 President Obama signed H.R. 1295, which retroactively renewed the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Long awaited by many U.S. importers, GSP’s renewal allows nearly 5,000 products from 122 designated beneficiary countries and territories to once again be eligible for duty-free entry into the U.S. However, the good news doesn’t stop there. GSP’s…
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Thousands have been evacuated throughout southern China following landfall of Typhoon Linfa earlier this week and in anticipation of incoming Typhoon Chan-hom. Typhoon Linfa hit the southern coast of China on Thursday, prompting the closure of Hong Kong International Airport that afternoon. Chan-hom is expected to touch down on Saturday in Fujian or Zhejiang province.…
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If your company competed against unfairly subsidized imports shipped between October 1, 2000 and October 1, 2007, you may be eligible for some extra cash. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), antidumping or countervailing duties (AD/CV) collected during this seven year period will be distributed to certain U.S. domestic companies, as the Federal…
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an international trade agreement being negotiated behind closed doors, continues to spark controversy among U.S exporters and the world. Originally, in 2005, TPP was a four party agreement between New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, and Brunei. Since then, the trade agreement expanded its membership to include the U.S, Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia,…
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The U.S. government remains concerned about efforts by front companies and other intermediaries, who are not the true final end users, to transship or reexport U.S.-origin items to the Russian Federation in violation of current export controls. To prevent unauthorized reexports to Russia, especially for transactions involving nationally security-controlled items or items listed in Supplement…
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If you think U.S. Customs & Border Protection will never implement the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), think again. It appears Customs is charging ahead with its plan to fully launch ACE, according to an interim rule included in the Treasury Department's spring regulatory agenda. The rule requires all entry/entry summary information to be filed electronically…
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If the ins and outs of Importer Security Filings (ISF) still seem fuzzy to you─you're not alone. Apparently many members of the trade community (not just importers) are confused about the ISF enforcement, as evident by a recent question and answer round-up released by U.S. Customs & Border Protection. Several of the questions in the…
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U.S. exporters can request 12 months of AES filing records from the Census Bureau for free every year. Submitting the request is easy and recommended for companies that rely on a freight forwarder to file their Electronic Export Information (EEI) in AES. By obtaining these records directly from Census, exporters have the advantage of seeing…
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The California Attorney General has released a new resource guide that aims to help companies comply with the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act. Enacted in 2010, the Act requires large retailers and manufacturers doing business in California to disclose on their websites their efforts to stop human trafficking and slavery within their supply chains.…
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Mohawk's pinwheel garden is in full bloom this month at Syracuse's Hancock Airport, thanks to our volunteer "planting crew". Similar gardens are sprouting up all over Syracuse as part of the McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center's annual Pinwheels for Prevention campaign. Each April the Center encourages the local community to purchase and plant these symbolic gardens to…
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