GHY discusses changes to international trade regulations and explores cutting-edge compliance strategies.
Posted January 09, 2019
As the partial shutdown of the U.S. government heads for a record-breaking third week with no breakthrough in sight, the implications of the lapse in appropriations are beginning to manifest in various ways that are having negative impacts on the trade community. Continue Reading
Posted January 08, 2019
Under International Trade Issues, Trade Compliance News, U.S. Customs Issues
The USTR recently announced that it has granted nearly a thousand requests (roughly 9 percent of the total received) for exclusion from the Trump administration’s tariffs on certain imports from China, which it had imposed last year as a result of its Section 301 investigation into Beijing’s unfair trade practices such as the forced transfer of technology and intellectual property from U.S. companies. Continue Reading
Posted December 20, 2018
Under International Trade Issues, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, U.S. Customs Issues
Even though the U.S. government may be headed for a shutdown by the end of Friday in a dispute over funding for President Trump’s border wall, traders should not expect to see any service disruptions as most Homeland Security personnel are considered “essential” to ensuring that all major operations of Customs and Border Protection remain unaffected. Continue Reading
Posted November 06, 2018
Under International Trade Issues, Trade Compliance News, U.S. Customs Issues
As part of an effort to modernize the handling of certain low-value imports, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that beginning next year all commercial truck shipments containing “Section 321 merchandise” will be required to file an advance electronic manifest. Continue Reading
Posted November 01, 2018
U.S. Customs says it plans to focus on four major areas aimed at “further enhancing the agency’s security posture, modernizing import and export processes, improving our trade intelligence, and maximizing efficiencies,” according to a recently published “Trade Strategy 2020” that it says “provides a framework for our priorities within CBP’s overarching mission to provide trade security, enforcement and facilitation.” Continue Reading
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
