Join Jim Trubits, of Mohawk Global Trade Advisors (MGTA), on October 19 in Youngstown, OH for “Importing for Successful Exporters,” a panel discussion hosted by the Ohio Small Business Development Centers. The panel will be speaking about the key finance, compliance, and logistics issues that many small business exporters run into when importing components and…
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Effective November 15, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the U.S. Department of State (DOS) will enforce new requirements for the destination control statements needed under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The revisions will combine both destination control statements, used for EAR and ITAR, to…
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A new AES function, deployed by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), with help from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, assists filers with tracking decrementing license values. If the license quantity or value has been or will be met, filers will receive one of the following messages straightaway: The BIS license value has been…
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Effective July 22, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has officially revised their penalty guidelines to align with those of the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC). What has changed? The base penalty amount will now depend on whether the violation is determined to be egregious or non-egregious. The revised guidelines will also take into…
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You’ve heard the phrase, what you don’t know, won’t hurt you; well in this case, not knowing can hurt a lot more than you’d expect. Undetected ITAR violations can not only negatively impact your company’s bottom line, but it can also hurt its exporting future. By going through these questions, you can uncover what…
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MGTA's Robert Stein was recently interviewed by American Shipper about the trade's trials and tribulations with ACE, excerpted below. "In general, the ACE roll out is making progress. But we struggle day to day because there’s still so many ghosts in the machine that we’re constantly on the phone with Customs and the PGAs,” Mohawk’s…
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Come listen to one of MGTA's best speakers, Robert Stein, Vice President, as he presents at the upcoming Exporting and Foreign Trade Zone Toolbox seminar, hosted by by the Northeast Ohio Trade & Economic Consortium (NEOTEC) and U.S. Commercial Service. Mr. Stein will be speaking from 2-3pm at the May 12 event in North Canton,…
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Adrienne Graddy, local Customs broker, leads MGTA’s Midwest development ITASCA, Ill., April 25, 2016 (PR NEWSWIRE)–Mohawk Global Trade Advisors (MGTA), an international trade consulting firm, announces the addition of Adrienne Graddy to its team. Following MGTA’s enormous success in the Northeast—requiring it to more than double its staff in the last two years—the firm has…
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Regardless of industry, most business decisions can be boiled down to a few essential considerations. Is it worth it? What do we have to gain? Likewise, these questions should be some of the first to ponder when a company is looking into operating in a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ). Many companies become interested in pursuing…
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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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