Client Alert Ocean carriers of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) and the Canada Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (CTSA) have announced a rate increase for containers sailing from Asia to the U.S. and Canada. The following amounts will be effective March 15, 2012. For Asia to U.S. ports $240 per 20ft $300 per 40ft $340 per 40ft…
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Client Alert Import rail shipments into Montreal and Toronto may be delayed for the next several days due to backlog at terminals in Vancouver and Prince Rupert. Severe weather and a recent derailment in Alberta are being blamed for the backlog. Mohawk is working with carriers to minimize these delays. If you have an questions…
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Is your small business interested in moving production back to the U.S.? Need help with financing? Then you may want to take advantage of a program offered by the Small Business Administration (SBA). Designed to encourage businesses to bring jobs back to the U.S. and promote export growth, the SBA’s International Trade Loan program provides…
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Beginning next July, truck drivers will be driving less and resting more per new federal safety regulations. In an effort to improve driver safety, the U.S. Department of Transportation has made changes to hours of service regulations for truckers. Effective July 1, 2013, all U.S. commercial truck drivers and companies must comply with the new…
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Client Alert Most businesses in mainland China and Hong Kong will be closed from January 22-28 in observance of the Chinese New Year. In anticipation of the holiday, we urge all clients who ship freight to and from China to book upcoming shipments as soon as possible to avoid delays in the weeks surrounding the…
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Are you looking to grow your export business in 2012? Believe it or not, you can find valuable market research, trade leads, and duty calculations all on one website, export.gov. The U.S. Commercial Service has a 60-minute video tutorial on how to access every information rich resource on export.gov. Highlights include: A market research library…
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As the new year begins to peek up over the horizon, many domestic shippers are struggling to come to terms with current trucking rates. According to industry experts, rates could go up by about 10 percent next year (Source: Journal of Commerce). So what’s going on here? What’s driving rates up and up, year after…
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There’s a new Lacey Act Declaration form for imported plants and plant products; and APHIS, the Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, is doing its best to make sure importers are completing the form correctly. Since the new form (referred to as PPQ 505) is in a slightly different format than the previous version, APHIS…
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In March, we posted about a pending agreement between the Obama administration and the Mexican government to breathe new life into the cross-border trucking program that was cancelled in 2009. As of July 6, the U.S. and Mexican governments officially signed off on the agreement, establishing a new pilot program for authorized Mexican truckers to…
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Most foreign exporters don’t bat an eye when tasked with completing a commercial invoice. Some will tell you that they know their invoices well enough to fill them out in their sleep. Yet, an inaccurate or incomplete commercial invoice is one of the most common errors found during a U.S. Customs audit. In order to…
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