CBP is taking steps to automate the broker license applications, according to a Nov. 10 cargo systems message.
The FDA's ability to process imports slowed down this fall, driven by a combination of factors: the government shutdown, the transition from a regional to a national processing program, and increased scrutiny of imported products subject to import alerts, such as products from Indonesia, sources told International Trade Today.
NEW YORK -- Geodis Vice President Ed Fitzgerald and Maytee Pereira, Customs and International Trade co-leader at PwC, told trade compliance professionals that CBP scrutiny is getting stricter.
CBP created Harmonized System Update 2539 on Oct. 31, containing 38 Automated Broker Interface records and 17 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. It includes the Section 232 duties on Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (MHDVs), Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Parts (MHDVPs), and buses effective Nov. 1, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 10984 issued on Oct. 17.
Software developer Descartes found that the majority of the 434 freight forwarders and customs brokers it surveyed globally are taking a wait-and-see approach to company growth amid worldwide macroeconomic uncertainties, according to the company's annual Forwarder/Broker Benchmark Study released this week.
The Air Forwarders Association will begin pressuring Congress to improve airport infrastructure to better handle air freight, the group's executive director, Brandon Fried, said at the Coalition of New England Companies for Trade's (CONECT) Northeast Trade and Transportation Conference on Oct. 30.
As the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative considers whether the U.S. wants to continue the USMCA, it will evaluate more than 1,500 comments from farmers, manufacturers, retailers, civic society and broad business interests that operate in all three countries.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas set sentencing for Jan. 8 in a case against a customs broker for conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Magistrate Judge Kathleen Cardone referred the case for sentencing in an Oct. 24 order after accepting the guilty plea from the individual, Carlos Leopoldo Alvelais (USA v. Carlos Leopoldo Alvelais, W.D. Tex. # 3:25-02512).
While importers may explore tariff mitigation strategies such as duty drawback, bonded warehouses, foreign-trade zones and free trade agreement eligibility, ensuring proper tariff classification should be the first and top priority, because potentially thousands of dollars in the underpayment -- or overpayment -- of duties is at stake if a good is classified incorrectly, speakers said during a panel at last week's International Compliance Professionals Association conference in Texas.
NEWPORT, R.I. -- The Trump administration appears to be ditching the standard of reasonable care by importers in favor of strict compliance when enforcing customs violations, trade lawyer David Murphy said at the Coalition of New England Companies for Trade's (CONECT) Northeast Trade and Transportation Conference on Oct. 29.