GHY discusses changes to international trade regulations and explores cutting-edge compliance strategies.
Posted March 27, 2018
Under International Trade Issues, Trade Compliance News, U.S. Customs Issues
Earlier this month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection released a long-awaited strategic position paper describing how the agency intends to cope with safety and security risks posed by the increasing number of low-value, high-volume cross-border shipments resulting from the global shift in trade to an e-commerce platform. Continue Reading
Posted January 05, 2018
Ahead of the NAFTA talks entering what could be a final make or break phase later this month, the U.S. Department of Commerce has released a new report “to inform policymakers, business leaders, and others” about the current state of America’s digital trade with Canada and Mexico; one of the few areas where officials say they have been making “solid progress” in the otherwise deadlocked negotiations to modernize NAFTA. Continue Reading
Posted June 06, 2017
The trade group representing online service providers such as Google, Amazon, eBay and Facebook has released a white paper outlining the industry’s top priorities in the upcoming NAFTA talks including provisions aiming to promote the free flow of data, block forced data localization, and streamline a variety of “burdensome” customs procedures that currently inhibit the ability of small and medium-sized companies to ship items abroad in a cost-effective way. Continue Reading
Posted March 31, 2017
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has released its 2017 National Trade Estimate Report detailing significant foreign trade barriers to American exports, many of which single out China for various “barriers to digital trade” and other allegedly unfair trade restrictions, in addition to taking aim at Beijing’s “Made in China 2025” plan for seeking to provide domestic companies with advantages over foreign ones. Continue Reading
Posted March 06, 2017
Under Canadian Customs Issues, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Trade Compliance News
The incomplete collection of sales tax and import duty on postal shipments inbound into Canada is estimated to be causing a significant annual loss of public sector income, while also distorting competition between Canadian retailers and foreign competitors as well as that between postal and express operators, according to a new study. Continue Reading
Posted December 23, 2016
China’s e-commerce retailer Alibaba Group has again been designated by the Obama administration as a haven for counterfeit products with a credibility-damaging return to a U.S. blacklist for illegal fakes just four years after getting its name removed. Continue Reading
